SUPPORT FOR TESTS
Labour Federation’s Attitude
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 2.
! The Federation of Labour was ’ not prepared to agree that Britain I should abandon her hydrogen bomb tests while such tests were being carried on by other nations, said Mr F. P. Walsh, president of the federation, today. Mr Walsh had been asked to comment on the rejection by the federation’s national conference 4 yesterday of remits calling for a protest at continued nuclear weapon tests in the Pacific.
It was a peculiar thing that persons who objected to Britain’s hydrogen bomb tests raised no outcry about tests conducted by other countries, Mr Walsh said. It should not be suggested that Britain should refrain from such tests till there .was universal agreement on banning them. If Britain did so, it would place her at a disadvantage with Russia and other countries. The same argument applied, of course, to conventional weapons.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 10
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153SUPPORT FOR TESTS Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 10
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