ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE "ATOMIC DISEASE"
On the eve of the world-wide commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the atomic age at Hiroshima August 6, 1945, the twenty-fourth known victim this year of that explosion or the one in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, made headlines in Japan.
The victim was Miss Kimiko Matsuda, a 2l-year-old bus conductor, who was exposed to the atomic radiation provided by President Truman when she was one year old,
She had no hospital records until she suddenly became ill on July 17. "Miss Matsuda had purple spots all over her body, complained of a sore throat and had bleeding gums," reports the July 30 Japan Times. "These are common symptoms of what is known as ‘atomic disease,! oo
A check on her blood showed that she had leukemia. "She died only nine days after she was hospitalized."
HOW MANY GASUALTIES AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI?
Among the achievements which American presidents like to boast about, there is one they have become increasingly reluctant to emphasize in recent years. This is the number of