S.A. ARMS SUPPLY

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29956, 18 October 1962, Page 17

S.A. ARMS SUPPLY

Halt Urged By Norway (N.ZR. A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK. Oct 16. Norway today called for a halt to all shipments of arms and other military supplies to South Africa as a "new and realistic step towards a peaceful solution of the racial problem."

■ Speaking in the resumed debate in the United Nations Special Political Committee on South African racial policies, the Norwegian delegate, Mr Aase Lionaes, said budgetary expenditures for military purposes in South Africa had been more than doubled during the last two years.

“In view of the intensified measures undertaken by the Government against the nonwhite population, this increase in military expenditure is a matter of particular concern, because there is a definite impression that the main purpose of the military build-up is to make possible a permanent suppression of the non-whiite majority,” he said.

Racial policies in Southern Rhodesia continued to be the subject of debate in the Trusteeship Committee. Three supporters of multiracial government in Southern Rhodesia alleged that the nationalist leader, Mr Joeuha Nkomo had rejected the 1961 Constitution under pressure from extremists in his party, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union. The three Africans and one European—told the committee that opponents of co-operation between the races were causing considerable damage in their country, using the weapons of “arson, murder and intimidation.”