Washington-U.S.A.
COFFIN, TRIS
WASHINGTON-U.S.A. By Tris Coffin Macmillan's Visit & Atomic Secrecy Harold Macmillan has left behind the vivid autumn and uncertainty of Washington after at least one agreement. This is that...
...As a result, Senator Hubert Humph-rev (D.-Minn...
...either...
...The capture of American-made arms in Oman, presumably from Saudi Arabia, has lit new fires of apprehension in London...
...Strauss won by organizing a coalition of Congressional and military leaders which persuaded Mr...
...Strauss's war with the scientists flew into the headlines again in the arguments over radioactive fall-out...
...and we are not afraid of them.' Hundreds of anti-Communist Syrian refugees are in Turkey, and they talk a good deal about a revolution to turn out the "usurpers...
...This harsh view, justified or not, is one of the unpleasant facts of life today...
...J. Robert Oppenheimer, chairman of the scientific advisory committee, developed a strong personal antipathy toward one another...
...Strauss's quarrels with scientists began in World War II when he was brought in by a colleague in New York banking circles, Navy Secretary James Forrestal, to ride herd on Navy research...
...As a minority member of the Atomic Energy Commission in the Truman Administration, Strauss and Dr...
...Premier Adnan Menderes told a recent American visitor: "We haw...
...lie believes sincerely, and can quote chapter and verse from House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, that scientists are prone to Communist seduction...
...told me two years ago with some bitterness: "It is easier to get data from Soviet scientific journals than from America...
...This section has been used to starve our allies by Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Returning recently from the UN atomic conference in Vienna, Strauss remarked that no contest was involved in the Russian satellite launching...
...some of President Eisenhower's staunchest supporters were pleading angrily for action...
...Then, in the lush tropical greenness of Bermuda, Britain was on its knees begging forgiveness for a rash and headstrong act...
...Strauss has the complete trust and confidence of the President, and his views have had a marked effect on the Administration's outlook on research and development...
...The Prime Minister rushed to Washington because of a fear in the Foreign Office that the world was on the eve of either another Munich or a new Korea, and the British felt they could not trust Secretary of State John Fosler Dulles to give the President the right advice...
...British businessmen suspect that U.S...
...could probably win easilv any encounter with Syria...
...l hey presumable have contacts with antiCommunist guerrillas operating in Syria's Latakia Province...
...In mid-October, the Middle East crisis was slipping so rapidly toward what seemed almost an inevitable clash that Assistant Secretary of State William M. Rountree and representatives of CIA and USIA held a three-hour conference on Capitol Hill with what Senators they could round up...
...The United Kingdom and the Conservative party were both divided and uneasy...
...Britain was in the role of an experienced older brother saying: "Buck up...
...old boy, and follow me...
...been fighting the Russians for a good mam years off and on...
...This is now prohibited by an act of Congress which bans release of information on the design and fabrication of atomic weapons, and leaves to the discretion of the President how much data is turned over 011 peacetime uses...
...He has steadfastly maintained that the fall-out is not dangerous, and actually went so far as to prevent a Nobel Prize geneticist from going to Geneva some months ago to express contrary views...
...The United States this time was divided and uncertain...
...Sixth Fleet's guns...
...Last week, amid Washington's brilliant days and frosty nights, there was melancholy in the air...
...The result is that we have had to go our own way 011 nuclear development...
...England is leery lest the United States indirectlv give away her interests in the Middle East in return for peace in that area...
...British troops and planes have gone into action to put down insurrections in Oman and border raids from Yemen...
...The head of a European scientific mission to the U.S...
...Another objective of Prime Minister Macmillan was scientific teamwork, as in the creation of the atomic bomb...
...If a revolution broke out in Damascus, Russia could bring in tanks and troops only by trampling through Turkey or crossing the U.S...
...She might swing her guns north 011 Turkey or south to "protect" Jordan from attack by the Israelis...
...Later, as AEC chairman, Strauss put Dr...
...Turkev...
...Vannevar Bush, wartime science coordinator, has commented to friends that he spent as much time ironing out disagreements between Admiral Strauss and Navy scientists as on any other project...
...He is strong-willed, energetic and sometimes violently suspicious...
...Oppenheimer on trial publicly as an untrustworthy individual...
...The fear of another Korea remains...
...by far the tougher foe...
...This exploded into the bitter, no-holds-barred struggle over the hydrogen bomb...
...She is not quaking...
...This hearing did more than any other act to pull scientists away from Government service...
...Militarily and to a lesser extent economically, Western Europe is dependent on the United States...
...Strauss, too is deeply involved in the unfortunate suspicion between the Eisenhower Administration and the rank-and-file of American scientists...
...This is that those two old and sometimes cranky friends, Britain and the United States, cannot afford the petty grudges that sprang up in the last few years...
...Strauss is the author of this freeze...
...The English are hanging on with bulldog stubbornness to their rich oil properties in the Persian Gulf in the face of Arab nationalist attacks and Soviet intrigue...
...The British Prime Minister must have felt an ironic contrast between this and his meeting with President Eisenhower last March...
...Eisenhowfr's obvious interest in sitting down with Marshal Zhukov and getting the world back on the happy path of peace ami prosperity...
...Russia's Middle East "friend,' Syria, is the key...
...Apparently he had forgotten the debates in the National Security Council—beginning in May 1955—over satellite progress here and in the USSR...
...Using the Klaus Fuchs case as his lever, he persuaded the President and later Congress that our allies did not have decent security regulations, and that our pile of secrets would slip away like a sand dune at high tide...
...oil interests are not unhappy about King Saud's quarrels with the British over disputed lands on the Arabian Peninsula...
...They reported chat the situation was out of hand and pleaded for a gesture of unity by Congress...
...went on television and asked the country to close ranks behind the President...
...Of particular concern lo Britain and our other NATO allies is Mr...
...Truman to override the Commission's veto...
...A bilateral agreement might leave those countries flopping and gasping like fish in a dried-up stream...
Vol. 40 • November 1957 • No. 44
