ATOMIC BOMBS FOR WORLD AIR FORCE
SUGGESTION FROM U.S. Recd. 6 p.m. New York, Nov. 8. Capt. Harold Stassen, a member of the United States delegation on the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, and Governor of Minnesota, addressing the Academy of Political Science, suggested the formation of a United Nations Air Force, equipped with a limited number of atomic bombs, and thereafter manufacture be banned in all nations as a crime against mankind. He proposed that the United Nations Charter be amended empowering the Security Council to fight to establish an air force of five bomber and ten fighter squadrons, manned by volunteers from the United Nations, not more than one-fifth of the personnel In any squadron to be of one nationality. He suggested that present plants manufacture 75 bombs, each squadron to have five bombs, and be based at five suitable points in the world to serve as a stabilisation force for world order.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 266, 10 November 1945, Page 5
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