Another Committee on Disarmament Begins Plans for New Organization

A second Harvard-Radcliffe committee on disarmament will organize next Tuesday night, David Hamilton 1G announced yesterday. Hamilton vehemently denied rumors that the new group, to be called the Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy, will merge with the Committee to Study Disarmament.

"There will be no official connection between the two groups," he explained. He justified the new committee by stating that it "intends to take a definite position for general disarmament, whereas the other group is devoted to an impartial study of the problem."

Hamilton admitted that "many members of our committee are also members of the study committee," but added that a large number are not.

Although not yet officially a Harvard-Radcliffe organization, there are about 10-15 individuals already active in work related to the committee, Hamilton revealed.

The group's major activity so far has been the circulation of a petition which urged the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom to negotiate "an immediate agreement for the permanent cessation of nuclear weapon testing." The petition stipulated that the agreement should be guaranteed by U.N. inspection.

About 150 signatures were "easily" obtained since last Monday, Hamilton revealed, in scattered Harvard and Radcliffe dormitories. More petitions will be circulated next week. When completed, they will be sent to Geneva.

"The new Committee will be aimed at political action," Hamilton said, but he stressed that "it will in no way be partisan or sectarian. It is simply concerned with disarmament and with directly related issues, such as nuclear weapon testing and missile control. It in no way will adopt a political point of view or ideology."