CALL BY WORLD CHURCHES

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 11

CALL BY WORLD CHURCHES

“End A-Tests And Algerian War"

(N2. Press Association— Copyright)

RHODES (GREECE), August 22.

The “foreign ministry” of the World Council of Churches today appealed to the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union not to resume nuclear tests and to give the Geneva test ban conference more time to reach agreement.

The “ministry” the Committee of Churches on International Affairs called urgently for a treaty to end all tests and called on all other powers notably France, which were contemplating tests, to suspend them.

In another statement tabled before the central committee of the organisation of Christian churches, the C.C.I.A. called for urgent negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the Algerian war.

The president of the Church Missions Society and chairman of the C.C.1.A., Sir Kenneth Grubb, also tabled a resolution asking the central committee to “keep the situation in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland under constant review.” The recommendations on international affairs were made to 90 members of the World Council of Churches’ central committee which opened a nine-day meeting last Wednesday. The council embraces 173 Protestant, Anglican and Greek Orthodox Churches. The resolutions were adopted by the C.C.I.A. executive at Spittai, Austria, earlier this month.

The statement on nuclear tests is to be sent to all Governments directly concerned and to be distributed to all United Nations delegates.