USE OF ATOMIC POWER

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24883, 24 May 1946, Page 7

USE OF ATOMIC POWER

POOLING KNOWLEDGE DISCUSSED

DOMINION MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE LONDON, May 22. The Dominion Ministers again took up the subject of atomic energy, this time with Mr MacKenzie King giving the meeting Canada’s special point of view as the home of major .developments in the special treatment of uranium.

Mr Attlee presided. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Bevin), the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Dr. Hugh Dalton), and the Minister of Supply (Mr John Wilmot) were also present. The Ministers exchanged views m general terms and discussed the interchange of scientists, the pooling of knowledge and making available the Commonwealth’s research and other facilities in the common interest.

The nationality of married women, also questions of British nationality in general, were the subjects of 'the morning meeting. The Lord Chancellor (Lord Jowitt) and the Home Secretary (Mr Chuter Ede) were present. The Ministers decided that legal experts should meet in London as early as possible to review the whole subject. The nationality of children of mixed marriages is one point which the experts will consider as well as nationality difficulties when an alien woman marries a British subject. The Ministers did not discuss Commonwealth citizenship, but it is assumed that the experts, when they review extraterritorial rights and Dominions subjects, must take into consideration the possibility of this development. The Ministers will meet finally tomorrow. They are expected to issue a communique reviewing the talks, although again emphasising that the meetings were not intended to lead to a decision, but only to provide members of the Commonwealth with an opportunity to hear views and consider facts connected with subjects ot common interest.