Abstract

In the Wind

The article focuses on some recent issues in the United States. "Every sensitive humanitarian," says a letter in the San Francisco Chronicle of September 26, "has reacted in horror to the savage atomic bomb. As a socialistic project under a New Deal brain trust of starry-eyed professors it is a flagrant example of the dangers of government meddling in the field of free enterprise. These same reformers now want a federal department of science to allow these same dreamers to continue their experiments, the end in view being, no doubt, to develop such new cheap sources of power as to undermine the way of life under private enterprise.'' Journalist William E. Laurence of the New York Times, who observed the effects of the atomic bomb in New Mexico and over Nagasaki, Japan, stated recently, "Atomic energy is here to stay, the question is whether we are."