Caption: (NY9-APRIL 28) COMMUNIST SCIENTIST FIRED BY FRANCE-Frederic Joliot-Curie (above), Communist scientist and chief of France's atomic energy commission, will be fired from his post, the French government decided today. Such action has been the demand of center and right wing leaders and newspapers since he told the 12the National Congress of the French Communist Party early this month that "Communist scientists will never contribute a particle of their science to a war against the Soviet Union."(APWirephoto)gww60842fls)1950 (SEE WIRE STORY).
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