HE Australian “Committee Against Atomic Testing” (CAAT) is planning to sail a multi-national, unarmed fleet, into the zone where the French intend to test nuclear nuclear weapons later this year. If the armada is successful it may well be a turning point in the history of the fight against war in the nuclear age. CAAT was formed last year, following the Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, by representatives and lay
members of trade unions, religious
and civic groups, and the academic
community, ;
Its declared policy aim, which is
consistent with the partial nuclear
test ban treaty, is to prevent the test-
ing of nuclear weapons in the South
Pacific ocean area.
CAAT is working with the New
Zealand Committee for Resolute
Action against French tests, and is
supported by the Bertrand Russell
Peace Foundation; Liberation maga-
zine and the War Registers League in
America; Voice of Women in Canada
and Action Civiqui Nonviolente in
France.
There is, unfortunately, little hope
of official support for this project
from the governments of the one
hundred odd nations who signed the
test ban treaty.
CAAT have to rely on — and are
appealing to — individuals to finance
the scheme. Their treasurer is Hugh
Gilmore, P.O. Box 24, George Street
North, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.
Len Nicholas
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THE WEEK — Feb. 17, 1965 CEYLON:
T a special meeting recently the Ceylon Workers’ Congress decided to reject the recent agreement made between India and Ceylon on the status of workers of Indian origin in Ceylon. Most of these workers are employed on tea plantations in Ceylon. The agreement between the Indian and Ceylon governments on almost one million stateless immigrants of Indian origin provides that §25,000 will be granted Indian citizenship over a period of 15 years, 300,000 to be made Ceylonese citizens, and the fate of the remaining 150,000 is to be decided some time early in 1965 at a further meeting of