ARMS RACE PROBLEM

Press, Volume C, Issue 29627, 25 September 1961, Page 16

ARMS RACE PROBLEM

Commonwealth Lead Urged (N Z P.A-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Sept. 22. I Lord Boyd Orr. a Nobel Peace Prize winner, suggested yesterday that the Commonwealth should give a lead to the world on disarmament before the "sands of time ran out.” Mankind was faced with either having a wonderful new world or a continuation of the present armaments race, with the possible wiping out of the whole human family, he said.

■ I-ord Boyd Orr was speaking to delegates at the seventh conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on the Commonwealth's role in world disarmament. A British Labour member of Parliament. Mr George Thomson called for the setting up of a world government. and an all-purpose emergency unit, under the auspices of the United Nations, which would be capable of keeping the peace in local conflicts

“Who can say that the latest dreadful development in the Congo—with the tragic death of Mr Hammarskjold—might not have been avoided if there had been in existence today the kind of all-party emergency unit now envisaged by this group,” Mr Thomson said.