STEPS ALONG THE PATH OF INSANITY
‘Two more grim items were reported in last week!s press. France has now joined the nuclear club and Canada has been armed with nuclear warheads.
When the French Air Force accepted delivery of the first production models of its atomic bomber, the Mirage IV, the Cabinet issued a communiqué that spoke cryptically of "the creation of new means wnich the armed forces are beginning to have at their disposal." This was | interpreted to mean that de Gaulle has the first models of his "force de frappe."
In a signed article date-lined Paris October 9, Don Cook, feature writer of the New York Herald Tribune, said: "At least one free-falling atomic bomb..,has been produced by the French, but there are doubts as to whether the delivery of bombs will match the schedule of aircraft coming off the line."
It was not revealed whether the United States had supplied technical information that might have enabled the French to by-pass testing of their bomb,
on: the same day that it was revealed that France now has the bomb, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson told the House of Commons in Ottawa that the Canadian government had agreed to store nuclear warheads for jet interceptors at Harmon Field, Newfoundland, and Goose Bay, Labrador.
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Since Canadian interceptors are equipped to handle the American nuclear warheads, Canada may now be well ahead of France “along the path of insanity," as Dr. Linus C, Pauling has aptly termed the preparations for an atomic world war. a
NORWEGIAN COMMUNIST PARTY