Welcome For Ban

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 15

Welcome For Ban

(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 22. The “New York Times” said today that “not everybody is going to be happy” that a nuclear test-ban treaty appears about to be initialled. There would be generals who wished for more knowledge and politicians who were "so profoundly distrustful that they live in fear,” the newspaper said in an editorial But all the rest would welcome it.

"All accounts from Moscow agreed that a nuclear testban agreement is ready for initialling. This is cause for rejoicing even though it is prudent to remember the hurdles that will have to be surmounted before a hard-and-fast treaty is signed and delivered to a grateful world.” the editorial said. “Hundreds of millions on bo.h sides of the Iron Curtain have long yearned for an end of competitive nuclear tests that poison the atmosphere and remind us all that there is much more destructive powtr available that would be required to destroy humanity France And China

“President de Gaulle’s France will doubtless press its efforts to explode a few nuclear bombs to give itself some patriotic satisfaction and national comfort.

“So will the Chinese, but neither of these two Powers wul be in a position for some time to nullify the present value of an agreement between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.’’