Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1949.
Mr Frank Beswick
, Uxbridge
12:00,
20 October 1949
Has my right hon. Friend's attention been called to the Motion on the Order Paper, signed by 70 Members, calling for high level discussions on the international control and development of atomic energy? Can he say whether an opportunity will be given to discuss this Motion in the near future?
[That this House, while appreciating the great contribution made by the Prime Minister and the Government to the cause of international control of atomic energy, affirms its belief that the Prime Minister should take the initiative in proposing aconference between the heads of States, particularly the United States and the U.S.S.R., with a view to solving the existing deadlock and ending the race for the production of atomic and other weapons of mass destruction, and also believes that a supra-national Atomic Development Corporation should be set up and supported by all those nations which are willing to do so even if every nation in the world is not vet, at this moment, ready to join it.]
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