OPEN SKIES FOR PEACE
Sir,-We would like it known that the W.D.F.F. annual conference last year, representing 28,000 women, passed the following remit: "That the Government be asked to use its influence to bring about by international control, the cessation of all nuclear weapon tests." The reply from Mr Holland was "that the Government is of the opinion that the proposal for the cessation of such tests can be assessed only in the light of progress in international negotiations on disarament." We feel that the cessation of nuclear tests is a matter quite apart from disarmament. The stockpiling of conventional armaments, though constituting a threat to the well-being of humanity, cannot be compared to the harm that is being done by and the dangers inherent in the testing of nuclear weapons. When many prominent scientists and even our own Government health magazine warns us of the harm now. being done to mankind and to future generations, why does Mr Holland say "It is not for New Zealand to take the lead in demanding the cessation of nuclear tests"? We have led the world in other matters. Why not at thie moet cricial
period?
P.
BRIDSON
Hon. Secretarv. Papamairie-
Opoutcie W? FF
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 925, 3 May 1957, Page 11
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201OPEN SKIES FOR PEACE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 925, 3 May 1957, Page 11
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