The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.