Five of the six living Nobel Peace Prize laureates Joined here today in a "Declaration on Peace and Disarmaments" in which they singled out the Middle East and Indochina wars as major threats to world peace." In their statement, presented officially to the United Nations today, they said the world remained divided and that violence was spreading. They added that "The Middle East and Southeast Asia are ravaged by war" and that "reduction of armaments has to be a condition of world peace." The declaration was signed by Rene Cassin of France, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the 1968 winner; Linus Pauling of the United States (1962); Sir John Boyd Orr (1949) and Philip J. Noel-Baker (1959), both of Britain, and Lester B. Pearson of Canada (1957). The only other living peace laureate, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche of the U.S. (1950), Under-Secretary General for Special Political Affairs, said that, as a member of the Secretariat, he felt he could not sign the declaration. But he said he fully agreed with and endorsed its text.
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