§ 15. Mrs. Hartasked the Lord Privy Seal if Her Majesty's Government will propose at an early meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations that a committee should be set up to consider the possibilities of preparing a United Nations' plan for an area of disengagement in Europe.
§ Mrs. HartWould not the Lord Privy Seal agree that the centre of Europe is an area within which there is the greatest danger of a war beginning which could end in a nuclear war? Therefore, is not this a specific problem which needs specific attention? Will not the Government 495 make such a proposal as a preliminary contribution paving the way for a period when agreement on such a proposal might be reached?
§ Mr. HeathThe Government cannot accept any such proposal for a study of disengagement, because they believe that disengagement itself actually increases the danger through the creation of a vacuum in an important area like Europe. It is quite different from disarmament or any form of controlled armaments.