Because of its importance we are reproducing the main policy resolution adopted at the 1964 annual conference of CND.
Conference affirms CND's total opposition to all nuclear weapons and nuclear alliances and weapons of mass destruction, and that we are dedic= ated to strengthening the authority of the United Nations. We affirm that we will continue to exert pressure on the new Government, as on the last, to see the policies we advocate implemented. Conference insists that C.N.D. shall press the Labour bavaiantt to carry out the pledges on disarmament given in its election manifestos; renounce the so-called "independent" deterrent; oppose the formation of the M.L.F. or any similar force; and refrain from reintroducing conscription.
Further, it shall urge the Government to: repudiate the Nassau Agreement; cease the construction of Polaris submarines; announce its intention of withdrawing from NATO; and work for the inclusion of China in the United Nations. Conference rejects all policies of deterrence based upon the threat of use of nuclear weapons, and declares the objects of the Campaign to bes 1. The unilateral renunciation by Great Britain of all nuclear policies, including the manufacture of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, no matter what any other country may do. 2. The withdrawal of all nuclear bases on British soil and those overseas that we directly control, or share in the control of. 3. The immediate withdrawal from all military alliances which depend on nuclear policies; this includes NATO, SEATO, CENTO.
Conference welcomes this restatement of our aims and principles and directs the National Council to give them the widest possible publicity at home and abroad, throuchout the coming year. Conference reaffirms its opposition to nuclear weapons and all alliances based on nuclear weqpons. Recognising the obsolesence of the independent British deterrent, Conference calls on the Campaign to give first priority to its work to putting the case for the withdrawal from NATO. In an age of intercontinental ballistic missiles no nation will commit suicide for another. In this situation NATO (as well as the Warsaw Pact) is showing signs of strain. CND must ruthlessly expose all measures - of which the MLF may only be the lst example - which by attempting to prop up a disintegrating and militarily useless alliance encourage spread and are provocative. Conference stresses that the Campaign should call for immediate withdrawal from NATO, rather than specifying withdrawal in 1969.