OPEN SKIES FOR PEACE
Sir,-It appears that there are many ordinary people who feel very deeply that they would -like to. make some formal and public protest against the continuation of nuclear weapon tests, and the threat of nuclear warfare. Some of us feel that the time has come for something more than letters in the corresponcence columns of newspapers. The voice of the mother and housewife is seldom heard outside her immediate domain of the home, but the dangers of ,nuclear tests and warfare concern her more closely than any other section of the community, for hers is the task of bringing the new generation to maturity. She does everything in her power to ensure that her family will
grow up healthy and sound, in mind and body. Therefore, the possible dangers resulting from the continuation of nuclear experiments must be abolished because these, we are told, will affect the health of children-perhaps as yet unborn. Public opinion is possibly the best method of abolishing this threat and danger to our children. The time has come, ‘surely, for some organisation to be formed to allow the voice of the ordinary people to be heard. We would like to suggest a Parents’ League for abolishing nuclear experiments and warfare. It would be a non-political, nonsectarian organisation, and its sole function to unite the ordinary people, and arouse public opinion in order to abolish all possibility of nuclear warfare.
EILEEN
FISHER
CLEMENCY
RENNIE
(Maungaturoto).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 11
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243OPEN SKIES FOR PEACE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 922, 12 April 1957, Page 11
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