ATOMIC WAR IN EIGHT YEARS, UNLESS

Chronicle (Levin), 1 July 1947, Page 5

ATOMIC WAR IN EIGHT YEARS, UNLESS

Press Assn.

By Telegraph

-Copyright

Received Monday, 7.0 p.m. NEW YORK, June 29. The emergency committee of atomic seirntists issued a wai-iti ng today that atomic wai- might break out within eight years. - Tlie committee, oi' which Proi'essor Einstein is chairman, and the noted atomic scientist Proiessor llarold Urey, is vice-chairman, estimated that Russia would start stockpiling atomic bomhs by ' 1955 and declared: "(Lice stockpiles oi atomic bom.m have been accumulated by two national ' hines oi a divnled world, it vvili no longer be possible to mahitahi peace. " The committee. in a statement addressed to the people oi the world, asserted that United Nations had l'ailed to find an eifective safeguard against atomic war because each major nation had jockeyed in the negotiations, trying to' place itseli in tlie most advantageous position to win the next war. A neu approach toward the iormation oi a vvoi'ld (lovernment to control atomic energy was necessary ii wai* was to be prevented. The Americans must take an active part in achieving such a world settlement and must be preparod to mobilise tlieir vast resouj'ces to help the peo])les oi the world to l.ft their economic levels. "In the long run the creation oi a supranatural Government with ])owers adequate to maintain peace, is necessary," the statement added.