AUSTRALIA AND U.N.

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25608, 24 September 1948, Page 7

AUSTRALIA AND U.N.

DR. EVATT’S POLICY CRITICISED

DEBATE AT CANBERRA (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m. CANBERRA. Sept. 23. The Minister of External Affair* (Dr. H. V. Evatt) had taken to tne present Assembly of the United Nations a policy of disarmament that would make the United Nations a toothless body indeed, said Mr H. L. Anthony (Country Party) in the House of Representatives. He added that “no universal training” was a plank in the Labour platform, but that neither Mr Stalin nor the nations with which Australia would have to line up thought along those lines. The Government talked about atom and rocket bombs and scientific warfare in which no man would fight except the boys who took the bombers up. Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery had said recently that whatever advances were made in scientific warfare, the man with the rifle and bayonet would always be needed to finish them off.

Mr C. W. A. Duthie (Labour) said that the Opposition was deliberately stimulating the fear of war. The global war had finished only three years ago. and the peoples of the world had a right to expect a global peace.

Mr P. A. Mcßride (Liberal) said that no man in Australia had done more to cause Russian aggression than the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley). He had done so by declaring that the Allied countries should resist Russian pressure up to the point of war, but that they could not contemplate going to war. This was the greatest encouragement Russia could have.