A letter, which indicates the start of a campaign to inform the British people of the dangers that American nuclear bases in this country represent to them, appeared in the Times during the week. The letter signed by 40 MPs reads: "If Russian missiles in Cuba were a threat to American cities (as we believe they were) then United States missiles ringing the USSR are equally a threat to Soviet cities, This is the lesson that millions have learnt from the terrifying events ef the Cuban crisis. "Now that Mr. Krushchev has withdrawn his missiles, Mr. Kennedy should respond similarly. Unless the West makes some counter=concession Mr. Khruschev's present policies may be replaced by tougher ones. "We in Britain should press the United kingdom Govern ment to ask Mr. Kennedy to remove his Polaris and Thor missile. bases from our country immediately. These bases heighten world tension. They also make it certain that the British people would be incinerated in the first hours of a world war.”
The signatories ares leo Abse, Frank Allaun, Stan Awbery, John Baird, William Baxter, Alan Beaney, Fenner Brockway, Joyce Butler, Harold Imvies, S.0. Davies, TomeDriberg, Michael Foot, Anthony Greenwood, Will Griffiths, Judith Hart, Emrys Hughes, Arthur Wede lewis, Marcus Lipton, John Mackie, Archie Manuel, W. Monslow, AeE. Oram, Will Owen, George Pargiter, Ben Parkin, John Paton, LeAe Iavitt, Leslie Plummer, Arthur Probert, John Rankin, Julius Silverman, Harriet Slater, leslie Spriggs, John Stonehouse, Tom Swain, Stephen Swingler, Bernard Taylor, William Warbey , Tudor E. Watkins, K. Zilliacus.
Iabour party nembers should support the attempt being made by these WPs to implement conference decisions.