13 MAY 1955, Page 7

`Do YOU THINK BRITAIN should make the hydrogen bomb, or

should we devote atomic energy solely to peaceful uses?' asks the News Chronicle Gallup Poll, which all too evidently has no use for fine distinctions about offensive and defensive arma- ments. Put like that it is no wonder that a majority were against the bomb. First put the right question, then get the right answer—that's the way. This time the pollsters would seem to have angled themselves as far out of objectivity as out of reality.