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6. If the British Government were to declare that the M.L.F. should be abandoned and make a call for practical steps of disarmament it would find a big response here. 7. Both countries have an interest in avoiding such an extention of the area of conflict because of the threatening consequences, were the localization to fail. 8. A heavy expenditure on atomic development for peaceful purposes, if controlled by the people, would ultimately pay handsome dividends. 9. The decision that there should be no broadcast on matters which were about to be debated in Parliament was originally neither negotiated nor bargained for. 10. An undertaking by non-nuclear states not to acquire nor manufacture nuclear weapons would be an important step. The guarantee through the U. N. should safeguard against threats by countries embarking on a nuclear weapons capability, as well as those which already had that capability, the Indian delegate said. 11. That the decision of the steering committee should have been overruled by the narrow margin of one vote only points to the necessity of continuing the debates. 12. "Of the 550,000 people who die each year, at least 100,000 die of conditions that can now be prevented or whose destructive powers can be diminished or postponed." Dr W. illustrated his point with the case of the Rhondda, where the health facilities "are quite inadequate." Of the 1,380 people who died there in 1965, 388 would have survived if the death rate had been as low as in the rest of England and Wales. 13. Mr H. suggested that the Lord Chancellor should help the Smith regime make sense of the proposals for setting up an interim Government which it had not been able to accept. He said it was "a mark of bankruptcy of statesmanship" to come to the point where mandatory sanctions had to be used — a remark which -brought murmurs from the Labor benches. He asked the Prime Minister for a categorical undertaking that if oil sanctions were proposed particularly against South Africa, the British Government would use its veto. This brought cries of "no" from a number of Labor back-benchers. 180
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