National Reports
ALEXANDER", "WILLIAM K. WYANT JR., ROBERT J.
National Reports Scientists Discuss Atomic Radiation St. Louis On the morning after the Presidential election, faculty and students of Washington University gathered at chapel to hear an address...
...It has also splattered New York City with large outdoor billboard displays praising him...
...These expenditures have borne fruit in the form of eulogistic statements by some U.S...
...The public can only wonder which viewpoint is the correct one...
...The appearance of the Galindez material, however, seems to have prompted someone to "denounce" her...
...Louis in December, Compton testified that it was possible that a continuation of super-bomb tests might lead to dangerous concentrations of radioactive material, "especially if at an increased tempo...
...Then, on March 12, Jesus de Galin-dez, who was about to publish a Columbia University doctoral thesis analyzing Trujillo's dictatorship and its false fagade of "constitutionalism," suddenly disappeared from New York's streets...
...His case is now pending in the New York courts...
...He observed that the campaign debate on the H-bomb had been a great gain, and that the momentous issue involved in the debate could not be put aside and forgotten...
...The magazine Iberica, for example, published by Louise Crane and edited by Victoria Kent, printed extensive sections of Galindez's expose in both Spanish and English...
...But I believe it is also desirable to stop them for moral and political gains to be made by doing so...
...The Dominican Government has also spent sizable sums in Washington on lavish entertainment of U.S...
...About a year-and-a-half ago, another important anti-Trujillo exile was murdered in Havana, causing a tremendous sensation in the Cuban capital...
...To the layman, the only thing that is absolutely clear about the controversy is that light is needed...
...It might be advisable for those U.S...
...In the process, an American journalist, Stanley Ross, long-time editor of the Dominican dictator's Ciadad Trujillo daily El Caribe, was put in charge...
...The other said the tests had to be stopped...
...She has resided here for more than half-a-dozen years, accredited as a representative of the Spanish Republican Government-in-Exile, and her status has never before been questioned...
...Thus, during a recent New York visit ex-Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, an exile from his own dictator-ridden nation, was vigorously denounced by the newspaper...
...This outfit has devoted much of its energy to picketing those who have expressed doubts about Trujillo, all of whom it accuses of being Communists...
...citizens, living in New York...
...internal affairs...
...authorities charged with enforcing the Voorhees Foreign Agents Registration Law to look into the sources of these funds...
...There are several hundred thousand Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans, who are U.S...
...The Dominican Government has placed numerous full-page advertisements lauding the Generalissimo in the largest metropolitan newspapers...
...In the second instance, his home was suddenly raided by six policemen without warrants, and "evidence" against him was found...
...Simultaneously, a curious series of "mishaps" have befallen some of Trujillo's more outspoken enemies in the United States...
...as its legal representative in New York City...
...In 1950, an anti-Trujillo labor leader, Mauricio Baez, then living in exile in Havana, Cuba, mysteriously disappeared without a trace...
...Prudence," said the three men, "requires that we recognize at least the imminence of a most serious health hazard...
...A Catholic, and a representative here of the Basque Government-in-Exile, his bona fides as a democrat and a fighter for democracy both in his own country and in Latin America were unchallengeable...
...Among his papers, a note was found stating that if anything happened to him the responsibility would be that of the Trujillo regime...
...Of one thing I am certain, and it is this: If it is even a subject of debate that tests may be hazardous to the whole of mankind, then it is absolutely clear that widespread use of these weapons in a future war would bring on mankind's own do-it-yourself apocalypse...
...It is also worth noting that, soon after the Galindez disappearance, a series of "Dominican Friendship Societies" and "Anti-Communist Associations" began cropping up throughout the United States and Latin America...
...It has picketed Governor Luis Munoz Marin of Puerto Rico, it has picketed the New York Times to protest its stand on Trujillo, and it has picketed meetings and press conferences with Romulo Betancourt...
...Two nationally known experts in the atomic field have spoken in the last month...
...The pro-Trujillo orientation of El Diario is of crucial importance...
...It is trying to exert pressure on U.S...
...Missing from the list, however, was Nobel Prize-winner Arthur H. Compton, former Chancellor...
...A public-relations expert employed by Iberica began receiving mysterious phone calls threatening him with death if he didn't quit the publication...
...Galindez had lived for a number of years in the Dominican Republic, as an exile from Franco Spain, and had learned many intimate details about its regime...
...Soon afterward, an investigation into Miss Kent's status in this country was begun...
...The Federal Government has steadfastly refused to intervene in the case, though it appears certain that this was a kidnaping and Federal authorities have entered similar cases, such as the Weinberger kidnaping...
...By Robert J. Alexander Those concerned with improving United States-Latin American relations have frequently criticized Washington's attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of the southern republics...
...This trail of "coincidence" began in February 1956, when it was announced that the Dominican Republic had hired Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr...
...Significantly, the head of the Venezuelan secret police, Pedro Estrada, was a paid Dominican agent before the present forces came to power in Venezuela...
...Trujillo's Long Hand Reaches the U.S...
...In spite of the New York City Police Department's efforts, no clues have yet been discovered which would shed any real light on Galin-dez's disappearance...
...Meanwhile, New York City's leading Spanish-language newspaper, El Diario de Nueva York, changed hands...
...He has registered as an agent of a foreign group operating in the U.S., and has been a law-abiding resident of New York City...
...He accidentally discovered it and immediately turned it over to the proper authorities...
...In New York City, one of the most active of these organizations is the so-called "Pan-American Anti-Communist Association of New York, Incorporated...
...They expressed concern lest the fallout from nuclear tests might be approaching a level sufficiently high to menace world health...
...But during the last year it has become increasingly evident that Trujillo has also set up a high-powered propaganda apparatus in the U.S...
...Then things suddenly started happening to the magazine...
...citizen who edited an anti-Trujillo periodical in New York City, was murdered gangster-style while leaving his home...
...For the Trujillo regime has gone beyond merely trying to influence general public opinion...
...It is no secret that the long hand of Trujillo's secret police often reaches out to punish his enemies in other countries of the hemisphere...
...Then there is a third "coincidence...
...It is headed by Pedro de Mesones, a Peruvian citizen who resided for many years in the Dominican Republic...
...Bauer, Fowler and Pond criticized the Administration for giving the public assurance that there was no danger from tests involving fallout of strontium-90...
...Their testimony urged that the United States move immediately, through the United Nations, to obtain an international agreement to suspend testing of bombs in the megaton and larger class...
...According to one of the pickets protesting Dr...
...Personally I believe," Condon said, "while admitting the uncertainties about the facts, that the hazards inherent in the tests themselves are great enough to make it desirable to stop them for this reason alone...
...In mid-November, 130 faculty members signed a letter urging the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to hold public hearings on the fallout problem...
...This was one of the reasons for the recent world's fair organized by the Dominican Government in Ciudad Trujillo...
...Dean Thomas S. Hall of the university's College of Liberal Arts and Dean of Faculties Carl Tol-man, Vice Chancellor, signed...
...Walter C. Bauer...
...in time, they will have a decisive voice in Manhattan's affairs...
...Last October, when Ross attended the Inter-American Press Association's Havana meeting as El Diario's representative, he was refused credentials on the grounds that he was a Trujillo agent...
...Louis On the morning after the Presidential election, faculty and students of Washington University gathered at chapel to hear an address by Professor Edward U. Condon, chairman of the Physics Department...
...In an effort to counteract the "bad publicity" triggered by the Galindez case, Trujillo has spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars to convince the American public that he is a grandfatherly figure who has done nothing but good for his people...
...It points up the need for a full-fledged investigation of the Dominican Government's agents here...
...Betancourt's presence, those carrying placards were paid $20 apiece for their hour or so of work...
...But when the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Disarmament conducted a hearing in St...
...These are dedicated to eulogizing the Dominican dictatorship and vilifying its enemies...
...The signers included Dr...
...Indeed, it might be a good idea to make the same kind of inquiry into various periodicals in this country which are enthusiastic supporters of the Dominican dictator and defilers of his enemies...
...They challenged the soundness of evaluations made by AEC Commissioner W. F. Libby and Merril Eisenbud, manager of the AEC's New York Operations Office...
...The title of the talk by Condon, former director of the National Bureau of Standards, was "H-bombs—the Morning After...
...Under its new management, El Diario has been attacking those in Latin America and elsewhere who have been critical of Trujillo's regime...
...Many U.S...
...Today, however, a curious reversal of this situation is taking place: The most ruthless and unprincipled Latin American dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, is trying to interfere in U.S...
...All this seems to indicate interference by the Dominican dictator in the internal affairs of the United States...
...One said tests of atomic devices could be continued safely at the present rate for years...
...In the first instance, incriminating evidence was placed in Silfa's car...
...A few years ago Andres Requena, a Dominican-born U.S...
...The organization sponsoring all this is obviously well financed...
...A physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb in World War II, he did not identify himself with the faculty group that has questioned the Atomic Energy Commission's attitude as too complacent...
...Carl F. Cori and Dr...
...German Ornes, a former editor of El Caribe who escaped to the United States about a year ago and requested political asylum, was denied re-admission to this country after he went to Havana for the Inter-American Press Association conference...
...That their daily reading diet consists of praise for dictatorships and the reviling of democratic elements in the Spanish-speaking part of the hemisphere has serious implications...
...The subcommittee also heard a statement prepared by two Washington University physicists, John M. Fowler and T. Alexander Pond, and a medical-school resident fellow in pathology, Dr...
...This last fact is important, since few people are allowed to leave the Trujillo empire unless the dictator wants them to...
...There can be no question that the Washington University group will continue its attempts to bring about a more exhaustive and definitive consideration of the radioactivity hazard than it has yet received...
...He urged that annual reports of radioactive hazards be prepared by a qualified scientific agency, independent of the Government...
...Some of the posters carried implied that Norman Thomas and Frances Grant, Secretary General of the staunchly anti-Communist Inter-American Association for Democracy and Freedom, were among the Communists whom they were denouncing...
...Gerty Cori, both Nobel Prize-winners, together with nearly 40 other medical doctors and 13 physicists...
...Yet, during the last year two attempts have been made to frame him...
...public officials who it feels might be useful...
...In another curious incident, Dr...
...Such action, they said, was imperative to stabilize the world political situation and promote peace...
...Condon is one of a number of Washington University scientists and physicians who have made extraordinary efforts, both during the Eisenhower-Stevenson campaign and subsequently, to stir up public interest in the potential danger of radioactive fallout, particularly in the danger from the bone-seeking material, strontium-90...
...Congressmen were invited as "guests," and the local newspapers gave them big spreads...
...Nicolas .Silfa has for many years been the New York representative of the Dominican Revolutionary party, one of the principal groups opposing Trujillo...
...lawmakers and other public officials...
...Congressmen concerning the Dominican dictatorship...
Vol. 40 • February 1957 • No. 6
