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7. Yesterday's White Paper on going over to decimal currency should end doubts that the Prime Minister is seriously aiming to get Britain into the Common Market, and should serve as a signal of the need to step up the pressure to stay out of the embrace of the Six. 8. The Government should now pursue a policy which will "bring about the abolition of all nuclear weapons and a speedy reduction of all weapons of war as soon as it is possible," said delegates. 9. Speaking at one of his rare Press conferences, he declared that Washington should observe the principle by which people must settle their own affairs themselves. 10. At his first Press conference since taking office on Monday, Japan's new Prime Minister said non-nuclear Powers like Japan, Canada and some European countries should raise their voices to contribute to peace in the world. 11. The Indian delegate said this should be one of five principal elements of an international agreement to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, a matter of highest priority. 12. The communiqué also said that international disputes, including border and territorial disputes, should be settled by peaceful negotiations, and the use of force was not permissible. 13. It was not without significance, he said, that people who were connected at that level with the situation should be expressing grave disquiet. 14. The Premier admitted yesterday that it was natural that people should be disturbed at food being thrown away when millions of people were undernourished. 15. Mr D. said two million pints of milk meant a great deal to many starving people. If this was going on year after year, was it right that this milk should be poured down the mines? 16. If young people are thought fit in such ways (for instance, compulsory military service at 18), why should they have to wait three years more to be entitled to vote? 94
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