WEAPON CAPABLE OF DESTROYING MANKIND
Khrushchev told a visiting group of Japanese parliamentarians September 15 that the Soviet Union has a new military device oapable of "exterminating humanity."
UT have never seen anything like it," he was reported to have said, "It is the most powerful, the mightiest of all existing devices, Its power is limitless, "
_ As a shiver of fear went round the world, Khrushchev backed down somewhat, He did not claim that. the weapon was "limitless," he said, He also explained that it was not a nuclear device. But the fear died slowly and speculation continued as to the nature of the secret weapon,
TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK .
On the ninth article. of the Chinese Communist party in
reply to the "open Letter" of the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist