§ Mr. BrockwayWith your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I desire to present a Petition signed by 2,500 citizens of Slough and collected by Alderman Mary Morgan and Mrs. Merrills and their colleagues of the women's section of the Labour Party there.
It is presented to the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled and
§ Sheweth:
§ That many millions now living and millions yet to be born are menaced by nuclear weapons, and particularly by the hydrogen bomb; and that hydrogen bomb tests involve dangers which scientists are unable to estimate.
§ Wherefore your Petitioners pray that the Government of the United Kingdom should not proceed with the hydrogen bomb test planned for Christmas Island, and should initiate negotiations with all Governments to ban all nuclear weapons, and that all nuclear weapon tests should be stopped whilst these international negotiations proceed.
§ And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.