PEACE AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1939, Page 8

PEACE AIMS

DRAWN UP BY SCIENTISTS. Fifty-seven British men of scienceall of them Fellows of the Royal Society—have drawn up a manifesto on peace aims. The signatories include the Bishop of Birmingham, Sir Richard Gregory, Professor Lancelot Hogben, Sir John Orr, Professor A. J. Clark, and Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell. The manifesto is as follows:—“Both because scientific discovery has greatly increased man’s power of destruction and because the continued progress of science and its application to human wellbeing are threatened by the prevailing anarchy of international relations, scientific workers have a special responsibility to their fellow- | citizens at this time. The moral and , material sacrifices which victory demands will be justified if victory leads to a stable international order and a world-wide effort to apply scientific knowledge to the common welfare of people in all countries. This will not come about if clear statement and discussion of the necessary conditions arc left till judgment is blinded by hatred and resolve is sapped by the strain of war. The signatories believe that the safeguards of this new international order must go far beyond the provisions of the League Covenant, which permitted rival Powers to retain their separate armed forces, left the control of backward communities and access to raw materials to individual nations, and established no central authority to legislate for the common needs of the constituent States. We believe that a necessary guarantee is an immediate, explicit, and official statement of our intention of inviting all nations prepared to pul away war between themselves to unite under a federal Government with supreme and single authority:—(a) To use armed force against aggression by any nation or group outside the Federal Union; (b to control the use of raw materials in undeveloped territories now subordinate to its members; (c--to undertake the education of backward communities without racial discrimination."