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The text printed below is the reply addressed to Mmes. Roosevelt, Sampson and Siraues by the Women's iniernationa! Democratic Federation on the question of bacteriological warfare. The W1I.D.F. considers bocteriological warfare to be so serious an altack upon humanity thai it deems it necessary to outline itz position once again before the bar of world opinion. Mrs. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT NEW YORK, N.Y. Sth September 1952 Dear Mrs. Roosevelt, We have received the letter signed by Mrs. Edith Sampson, Miss Anna Lord Strauss and yourself, purporting to answer, in the name of the “women in the United States”, our Open Letter to the American Women of May 1952. In this letter we stated that the use of germ warfere in Korea was being kept from the people of the United States of America and expressed our “full confidence that when the truth is known to them, they will join with the millions in every corner of the world who have denounced this monstrous crime ond are demanding an end to the war in Korea”, We cited facts from indisputable sources, which proved that germ warfare is being carried out in Korea. “Your letter repeats the denials by which the press, radio and Government of the United States attempt to conceal the truth. As Robert Miller, a United Press editor, reverity clnitted when addressing newspaper editors in Nevada, “We are not giving the truth about Korea, and we have not been”. The Government of the United States simultaneously denies these facts and boasts of (Le systematic preparation and manufacture of germ weapons, while at the same time, capiured United States fliers have admitted, in sworn statements, that they have dropped germ bombs in Korea and North China. As recently as May 19th, 1952, the magazine NEWSWEEK stated: — “... The army doesn't intend to give up iis research. It is asking an appro- priation of 17.197.000 dollars for expanding the biological warfare research at Camp Detrick, Maryland.” Ax this very moment, the people in Long Island (New York} are protesting against the construction in their community of a germ warfare research laboraiory coating tiiilions of dollars to manufacture millions of death germs. The Long Island residents see in this germ factory a deadly menace to themselves and their families. All the denials in the world will not shake their conviction that germ warfare is a dreadful reality. S00 -2VIYII R - 303