CAN AVERT WAR
TASK FOR STATESMANSHIP (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, told a Labour rally in Lancashire to-day that he believed that statesmanship could still avert war. “But the world still labours under the vast burden of armaments, and everywhere scientists are competing with each other to see who more quickly can produce weapons of mass destruction so frightful that the imagination staggers and reels back}.” He added: “The truth is that modern science—and to what base uses it it being put —can now destroy the whole world and all animal and vegetable life within it. Whatever Government is returned to power, we must persist in every possible effort to secure understanding and agreement with other countries, and to support the United Nations. We have had bitter and violent rebuffs and disappointments, but they must not deter us. With patience and resolution we must continue to seek agreement or arbitration on international differences to secure an effective system of international control and prohibition over these foul weapons.”—Reuter.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 103, 14 February 1950, Page 3
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173CAN AVERT WAR Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 103, 14 February 1950, Page 3
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