An anti-genocide bill was given an unopposed second reading in the House of Commons yesterday preparatory to ratification of the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948. During debate earlier, Labor MP Edward Lyons said it was depressing that neither the Soviet Union nor the United States had passed a bill like the one before Commons.
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