ATOMIC ENERGY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21900, 19 December 1945, Page 5

ATOMIC ENERGY

FUTURE WORLD REGIME URGED CANADIAN PREMIER’S VIEW OTTAWA, Dec. 17. In asking for the approval of the House of Commons to the agreement reaohed at Washington on the control of atomic energy, the Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, who is 71 to-day, said the more deeply one pondered on the implications of atomic energy the harder it was to see a solution in anything short of some surrender of national sovereignty. There must be substituted some form, of world Government, restricted at least at the outset to matters pertaining to the prevention of war and the maintenance of international security. “Only the First Step" "It would be criminal folly to allow ourselves to imagine that the peace and security of mankind can be attained by any scheme of commodity control as if atomic energy were some new and dangerous drug. A solution must be sought in the realm of world politics. “The United Nations’ Organisation is not a sufficient answer to the problems of world peace and security which the world is seeking. It is the first and all-important step, but it is not the only step, much less the final step. However, the United Nations’ Organisation is an indispensable medium and forum * through which the peoples of the world can work out new institutions and an arrangement which their peace and .security now require.” Mr. Mackenzie King reviewed the early research work on atomic energy and disclosed that an investigation of thorium as a probable second basic material for developing atomic energy Was being carried out at Chalk River, Ontario.