NUCLEAR FORCE
Protection In S.E.-Asia (N.Z P.A.-Reuter —Copyripho EDINBURGH. June 20. The former British Foreign Minister, Mr Patrick Gordon Walker, prposed the setting up of an international nucle. r free in the Indian or Pacific oceans as a means of persueding countries such as India and Japan from making nuclear bombs to protect themselves against China.
Mr Gordon Walker, who recently toured South-east Asia on a British Government-spon-sored mission aimed at finding a basis for Vietnam peace talks, wrote in the Edinburgh daily newspaper the “Scotsman” that if India and Japan followed China’s example from a sense of insecurity and made nuclear bombs, “that wxnild be good-bye to any effective attempt to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons.” The only way to stop this development was “to provide China’s neighbours with a satisfactory guarantee of nuclear protection.” Non-nuclear powers round the Indian or Pacific oceans could join the force on a basis of equality in the control of it. Mr Walker said.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30782, 21 June 1965, Page 16
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