sIGARUuare from A. (Leicester)
The Leicestor Parliamentary Dobating Society organised a debate on unilateralism on Friday 2nd of Novembor, The motion was moved by Harry Soan the Bol.eC,. commentator and sscondad by .lf Vatson, the vice-president of the Trades Council, Ai. Johneon, the chairman of the Loicoster Liberal Party was the main speaker against the motione Hoe accused C.N.D. of being *blatantly anti-Britisnt and mace a violontly anti-Gomumunist speoch, Soon told the mesting that the Govern~ nent's nuclear policies wore "totally, utterly and monstrously irrelevant" apainst the backsround of 70 por cent of the world's population living at or below starve ation level, Alf Watson said that tho cold-war was svarted by the West in 1945 when the United States took their unilateral action in dropping tho A.Bomb on Japan, he called for the end of N.A.T.O. and tho Warsaw Pact, and tho making of the U.N.O. into an offective force for peace. Tho resolution was passed by 51 votes to 7.