Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Digital Library Collections This is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections. Collection: Blackwell, Morton: Files Folder Title: Nuclear Freeze (10 of 16) Box: 15 To see more digitized collections visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library To see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection Contact a reference archivist at: [email protected] Citation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing National Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/ COMMUNISTS At least seven CN D leaders are either card-carrying Communist Party members or sympathisers. WHY THIS Leading Communists regularly use CN D meetings to attack British and American defence policies while praising Soviet Government 'peace' propaganda. The Communist Party pamphlet The Case for Peace and Disarmament refers to CN D General Secretary Bruce Kent as paying tribute to the Communist Party 'which he considered had vigorously worked to help sustain the peace movement through recent years'. Despite repeated denials of any linkwith the World Peace Council (a Soviet Government funded propaganda organisation) one of CN D's official representatives for north London is the National Organiser of the World Peace Council's British section, (March is the symbol of 1982). COMMUNISTS, NEUTRALISTS, DEFEATISTS. NEUTRALISTS CN D pretend that if Britain throws out our American allies from their bases here and gives up its own nuclear weapons then this island will be safe from a Soviet attack. THAT IS RUBBISH! So long as Britain dares to remain an independent nation, with adequate conventional forces and pledged to the Western Alliance, then our airfields and ports will continue to be targeted by the Russians. CN D know this. For them, throwing out the Americans is only the is the symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. first step; their next step, which they are scared to reveal openly, The CND wants Britain to disarm unilaterally. That will be to pull Britain out of NATO, the defence alliance which has out of war for over thirty years. means that we give up our weapons and defences kept us free and without any opponent giving up theirs. The destruction of NATO from the inside in this way is the top priority for Soviet Communist leaders. That is why they encourage CND. DEFEATISTS The scare propaganda about nuclear war churned out by CN D is extraordinarily similar to the scare tactics used by the Appeasers during the 1930s. Those people too tried to persuade the public that defending ourselves against the Nazis was both useless and a provocation. The great fear for that generation was the possibility of city bombing and gas attacks by the Germans. Prominent Left-wing scientists, academics, literary figures and politicians predicted enormous casualties, and spoke about the futility of Britain building up defences in the face of an aggressive Nazi Germany. Those arguments by the defeatists of the 1930s led Hitler to believe that he could walk over Europe with no opposition - and so World War 2 began. Today the CN D encourage the Soviet Government to believe that we would not stand up to defend the free and democratic society in which we live. They risk provoking the same miscalculation, this time among the Soviet leadership. The defeatists of the 1930s have come back to life in the 1980s­ they call themselves The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. REJECT COMMUNISM, NEUTRALISM, DEFEATISM REJECT UNILATERAL DISARMAMENT SUPPORT PEACE THROUGH SECURITY Pu blished by the Coalition for Peace Th rough Secu rity 27-31 Whitehall, London SW1 . Prin ted by Orchard & Ind Ltd ., 104 North gate Street, Gloucester ' .. ,. -. HIROSHIMA WAS a Nuclear Free Zone 0 n August 6th 1945 at 5 p.m. standard time, a single bomb was dropped by the 509th Composite group on Hiroshima, Japan . As a direct result 90,000 people died instantly and another 23,000 died from radiation burns and cancer in the following two months . So horrible was the devasta­ tion that people are still dying today as a result of radiation received during the first atomic explosion . PEACE IN EUROPE After 37 years of peace in Europe people are genuinely worried that a similar nuclear holocaust may soon occur in Britain . These fears are being articulated by the CN Dand other similar groups - all of them are calling for Britain to UN ILAT ERL Y disarm ; to make Britain a 'Nuclear Free Zona' . The question, however, must be asked ; wi ll this kind of disarmament prevent a nuclear anack on Britain? BREZHNEV LOVES BRITAIN? There can be only one answer . A big NO. The Soviet Union has missile s targeted on British cities, what stops Brezhnev from firing them? Is it his love for Mrs. Thatcher? Is it his admiration forthe students of Great Britain? Or is it his desire to preserve our unique constitutional monarchy? NO . Just as the Soviet Union would crush its neighbours Afghanistan and Poland, so it would threaten our country with death and destruction if it were not for one thing . OUR MISSILES The missiles of the Western Alliance are targeted at Russian cities . The facts may be horrifying but they are real. Nuclear weapons cannot be wished away, they cannot be dis invented. There remains only one course of action, a balanced reduction on all sides; it is called MULTILATERAL disarmament. CN Dwould prefer to make Britain defenceless, just as Japan was . They say we have nothing to fear from the Soviet Union . IF YOU THINK THE SOVIET THREAT IS A MYTH- JUST ASK A POLE Printed and published by the Federation of Conservative Students, 32 Smith Square , London SW 1P 3HH - THE COALITION FOR PEACE THROUGH SECURITY 27 /31 Whitehall, London SWlA 2BX Tel: 01-839 3951 Telex: 22861 Metmak G THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PEACE ISSUE -- PRESS INFORMATION ANOTHER EURO ----------PEACE PERSON WITH A VIEW STATEMENT BY Mr. Edward Leigh, British Director of the Coalition For Peace Through Security and Chairman of the British National Council For Civil Defense (which has over 60 parliamentary sponsors). 11 I am as committed to real peace and to disarmament as the delegates of the Euro Peace Tour 82 but · I believe that th~ only road to preserving both our peace and freedom is through multilateral, mutual, and verifiable disarmament not unilateral or one sided by the west first. Here are some questions that the press may want to ask the delegates. * However effective peace movements are in the west there is no likelihood or even remote possibility of them reaJly being tolerated in the Soviet Union any more than free trade unions. • / * The British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( a sponsor of the' tour) is committed to total . uni lateral disarmament by Britain and closure of U.S. bases. This will weaken NATO and embolden the Warsaw Pact. - * The more successful the CND and their allies are, the more disinclined will be the Soviets to negotiate arms reductions or dismantlement of SS20s already in pl ace knowing that the European governments wi 11 be forced by political - ,. pressure. to refuse deployment of cruise and pershing missles. * The Soviet Union has a 100% superiority in tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and a large superiority in conventional weapons. Any measure of unilateral disarmament may actually encourage the Soviet Union to wage a limited war in Europe. * Secretary General Luns of NATO said recently that the Soviet Union ha spent tens of millions of dollars on funding European Peace Groups . * The Morning Star, Britain's Communist newspaper gives preferential advertis­ ing rates to the British CND and openly boasts that 20% of its national counc i l are members of the Communist Party of Great Britain. And a number o CND officials have been receiving free trips to Moscow, expenses paid by t e official Soviet Peace Groups which itself totally rejects unilateral disarnfa ­ ment by the Soviet Unio. * Sov iet diplomats have been expelled by Norway, Denmark, and Holland f undi ng the so-called Peace Groups. SVf'JDAY SuNDA'<, MA t=<c.H ~(St, • .' • • -: .. : ~ I. ·,: , ..... • •• • • ' .-, - - "., ...... ":""'> :~,: .• .•. ~ .. ~ ·-·· ,: .,,.· .•.· ,. ,., ,.-.1j .. --· . -~-.- . ; .• ·- s ' 1 ' repee.tedl:r ~eaea- th• treat­ .. , ment g1ven by the Ruai&lll. ~ "We were trealted separatelY t · on all internal flights. and our ·· luggage was taken !rom hotel · 17 room to hotel room without our ever having to claim ~t. - · " In Tashkent we were greeted on the tarmac b:, tbe local Orthodox Archbishop 'PEACE' VISITORS together with the represent&-: tlves o! the ·peace Committee of Uzbekistan. " Imagine our sw-prue when ARE B!G HIT Lord Brockway was put ln & limousine, preceded by & . llce car, the rest o( ua fol• owing 1n a coach. · " Tala cavalcade, which -WITH RUSSIAN·s ibeca,me familiar on every )journey ln Uzbekistan, pro, ceeded with flubing blue THE RED carpet wa.s laid out for a party of 19 lights t.o cross all the red Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament sympathisers: trame ~hts ln our path. when th.::y tlew to Moscow a., offlclal guests o! the Russian TV and rad.lo rave the visit saturaUon coverage, ·Soviet Peace Committee. the report says. For ten days the group .----------­ During the vWt the group were treated llke foreign j by ·GERARD KEMP . met •• many eminent people In dignitaries. start1n1 from · .__.....,.______ _, · Soviet society . : . • tbe only the moment they by- . - group we : missed wu the . passed customs on amnL Jewish community. .. • A-t ti.mes, there waa a police . __ One criticism made t,31 the - ca.r beading their motor ? ···. :·Believer report was · of the difficulty cavalcade, flaahtng ~ in meeting specialist bodies: aa they swept tbrouch t.tamc 'l'!le lnvitatlon from Mo~ : "Specialist KTOUP& or indi- : ll&'ht& Oil.