OPPOSITION TO BOMB

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 16

OPPOSITION TO BOMB

C.N.D. Policy Unchanged

The New Zealand Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament remained a non-aligned group, with every member pledged in opposition to ail nuclear weapons, whether American, British, Russian, French or Chinese, said the annual report of the organisation presented to a New Zealand conference in Auckland at the week-end.

Following its policy, the organisation was bound to protest against New Zealand’s dependence on or support for the nuclear deterrent, the report said, for this was the point at which New Zealand, although not possessing or planning to possess nuclear weapons, shared the moral responsibility for the bomb,. After giving the campaign’s attitude towards the recent crisis in Vietnam, the statement said:

“Just as we, in considering the actions of a man like Eichmann, wonder how the community could allow such things to happen, so would any future generations wonder how our community could allow a nuclear war to happen. Then, as now, the only defence we have is the human conscience and men and women with the courage and intelligence to use it.”