Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest batch of publications was a sleeper: a special issue of the Chinese Medical Journal, now subtitled "the official organ of the Chinese Medical Association." Printed in English in Peking, the special issue is nothing but an assemblage of the Communist charges that the U.S. Air Force has waged germ warfare against North Korea and China. But this time, in an effort to camouflage their propaganda as "science," the Reds have persuaded five Western scientists to endorse their germ-war "evidence."The endorsement made a striking example of how five experts, each of high repute in his own field...
plane. They made no investigations at points where germ bombs were alleged to have been dropped; when they asked to go to such places, the Chinese and North Koreans fobbed them off with vague excuses. They made no bacteriological tests themselves, and they did no on-the-spot laboratory work on infected insects supposed to have been airdropped. They did not examine a single patient of the many who, the Reds said, had been made ill by airborne bacteria...
...anti-Communist opposition now holds only five of the 64 congressional seats. The President has given the Reds patronage and subsidies for their two newspapers. They run the government's radio and press propaganda; government trucks and projectors are used to show Communist films of alleged U.S. germ warfare in Korea...
...courses on the peoples of Africa. She is American vice president of the Communist-controlled Women's International Democratic Federation, was once president of the federation's affiliate, the Congress of American Women. Last year she did her best to publicize "proof" that the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea, and last September she flatly refused to tell a Senate internal-security subcommittee whether she was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party...
...Frazier left Perryopolis as a young woman in 1887, and only returned once in all the 61 years before she died in 1948. But tales of her eccentricities drifted back to local ears. After her first husband, a prominent Philadelphia physician, died in 1917, she developed a phobia against germs. When she was ill, she made a practice of renting a whole floor at New York's Doctors Hospital to keep other germ carriers at a distance. She bought dozens of pairs of white gloves, wore them constantly, saw to it that each was dipped in antiseptic after being...