Part 35 (1/2)

Of course, the government was blamed for the lives that were lost and the papers were merciless in their criticism at the failure to anticipate and force an evacuation of all theanticipated trouble, why did he not ask for evacuation?

Well, as I see it, for this reason:

A big city will not, never has, evacuated in response to rational argument

London never was evacuated on any major scale and we failed utterly in our attempt to force the evacuation of Berlin The people of New York City had considered the danger of air raids since 1940 and were long since hardened to the thought

But the fear of a nonexistent epideue caused the most nearly complete evacuation of a et e did to Vladivostok and Irkutsk and Moscow-those were innocent people, too War isn't pretty

I said luck played a part It was bad navigation that caused one of our shi+ps to dust Ryazan instead of Moscow, but that mistake knocked out the laboratory and plant which produced the only supply of military radio-actives in the Erasian Union Suppose the mistake had been the other way around-suppose that one of the E U shi+ps in attacking Washi+ngton, DC, by mistake, had included Ridpath's shop forty-five ress reconvened at the temporary capital in St Louis, and the A the fangs of the Eurasian Union It was not a military occupation in the usual sense; there were two simple objectives: to search out and dust all aircraft, aircraft plants, and fields, and to locate and dust radiation laboratories, uranium supplies, find lodes of carnotite and pitchblende No atteovern spell in which to consolidate our position Liberal rewards were offered to informers, a technique which worked remarkably well not only in the E U, but in most parts of the world

The ”weasel,” an instrue principle and refined by Ridpath's staff, greatly facilitated the work of locating uraniurid of weasels, properly spaced over a suspect area, could locate any important mass of uranium almost as handily as a direction-finder can spot a radio station

But, notwithstanding the excellent work of General Bulfinch and the Pacification Expedition as a whole, it was the originalRyazan that made the job possible of accomplishment

Anyone interested in the details of the pacification work done in l945-6 should see the ”Proceedings of the American Foundation for Social Research”

for a paper entitled, A Study of the Execution of the American Peace Policy from February, 1945 The de facto solution of the probleainst war left the United States with thea policy that would insure that the deadly power of the dust would never fall into unfit hands

The proble the circle and al and the President believed that the United Statesuntil some permanent institution could be developed fit to retain it The hazard was this: Foreign policy is lodged jointly in the hands of the President and the Congress We were fortunate at the tiress, but that was no guarantee for the future We have had unfit Presidents and power-hungry Congresses-oh, yes! Read the history of the Mexican War

We were about to hand over to future governlobe into an empire, our empire, and it was the sober opinion of the President that our characteristic and beloved democratic culture would not stand up under the terades both oppressor and oppressed

The President was determined that our sudden power should be used for the absolutepeace in the world-the si else It must not be used to protect Areements, for any purpose but the si

There is no science of sociology Perhaps there will be, soives a finished science of colloidal chee of biology, and froin to know so around the year 5,000 AD, maybe-if the human race does not commit suicide before then

Until then, there is only horse sense and rule of thu and the President played by ear

The treaties with Great Britain, Germany and the Eurasian Union, whereby we assuuaranteed the contracting nations against our own h in the period of relief and goodwill that immediately followed the termination of the Four-days War We followed the precedents established by the Panareements, and the Philippine Independence policy

But the purpose underneath was to coovernments of the United States to an irrevocable benevolent policy

The act to i the Commission of World Safety followed soon after, and Colonel Manning beca Commissioners had a life tenure and the intention was to create a body with the integrity, permanence and freedom from outside pressure possessed by the supreme court of the United States Since the treaties contemplated an eventual joint trust, commissioners need not be American citizens-and the oath they took was to preserve the peace of the world

There was trouble getting that clause past the Congress! Every other similar oath had been to the Constitution of the United States

Nevertheless the Coe of world aircraft, assumed jurisdiction over radio-actives, natural and artificial, and co up the Peace Patrol

Manning envisioned a corps of world policeh selection and indoctrination, could be trusted with unlimited power over the life of every lobe