SOME SOVEREIGNTY MUST GO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 299, 19 December 1945, Page 5

SOME SOVEREIGNTY MUST GO

WORLD GOVERNMENT NEEDED IMPLICATIONS OF ATOMIC ENERGY. Recd. 6 p.m. Ottawa, Dec. 17. Asking the House of Commons for approval of the agreement reached at Washington on the control of atomic energy, the Prime Minister, Mr. 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 seme 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 national security.

“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 was some new dangerous drug," he said. “A solution must be sought in the realm of world politics. The United Nations Organisation is not a sufficient answer Io the problems of world peace aid security which Ihe world is seeking. It is first and all important, but it is only a step, much less a final step. However, Die United Nations Organisation is an indispensable medium and a forum through which the peoples of Die world can work out new institutions and arrangements which their peace and security now require.” Mr. King reviewed early research work on atomic energy ar.d disclosed ting an investigation o f <horium as prJnably a second basic material for developing atomic energy was being carried out at Chalk River. Ontario.