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...National Association for the Preservation of the White Race, organized last July, is headed by Augusta, Ga. Store Owner Jack Dempsey, a former Grand Dragon of the K.K.K. The N.A.P.W.R.'s credo: "Negro blood destroyed the civilization of Egypt, India, Phoenicia, Carthage. Greece and Rome." Now Russia wants to destroy the U.S. by prodding "us to accept 16 million Negroes as social equals . . . Every American who by word or deed helps Russia further this plan of race destruction is a traitor to kind and country...
Aikichi Kuboyama was only an obscure Japanese tuna fisherman on the January morning he put to sea with crewmates of the trawler Fortunate Dragon. The father of three girls, he liked to spend his time ashore tinkering with neighbors' ailing radios and puttering in his garden. Sometimes he dreamed of quitting the sea and becoming a florist...
Unawaredly, the Fortunate Dragon cruised too close to the site of the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific (TIME, March 29). The test released more energy than the scientists had anticipated; Aikichi and his crewmates were liberally sprinkled with the fine white dust of the blast, which the Japanese have since come to know as shi no hai (the ashes of death...
...Japanese authorities haggled over the apportionment of blame and indemnity, the people of Japan anxiously watched the progress of their newly famed invalids. Most of the Dragon's crew responded to blood transfusion and antibiotics, but Radioman Kuboyama, who reportedly had a medical history of liver trouble, was not so lucky. Early last month, after seemingly recovering only to relapse again, he fell into a coma. Three weeks ago he revived slightly, but last week, as two doctors and his devoted family kept vigil, Aikichi Kuboyama died...
This phenomenon is the radioactive "fallout" that showered the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon and several of the inhabited Marshall Islands with noxious ashes. That this kind of noxious fallout must probably be expected, obviously transforms the new H-bomb from a city-destroying weapon to a province-crippling weapon. Churchill used this new phenomenon to justify the abandonment of Britain's great Suez base. Churchill was saying, in effect, that the Suez base, which stretches for 100 miles along the Canal, was now too vulnerable to have real value...