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It was Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King’s 71st birthday, but he was hardly in a mood for festivities. In his hand as he rose to address an ear-cupping House of Commons was his 5,000-word report on the control of atomic energy, drafted after his recent Washington conference with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee.
The source of war, said peace-loving Mr. King, must be banished from the earth. And, if man was to find “at least [his] survival, if not [his] salvation,” it could be done only by a form of world government in which “some surrender of national sovereignty” seemed inevitable. To harness the power for peace, said Mr. King, the secret must be shared.
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