A suggestion that nations which fail to agree at world conferences on disarmament penalize themselves by contributing the cost of a submarine or a dozen fighter planes to the United Nations Childrens Fund was made here in a formal address last night by Mrs. Zena Harman, of Israel, chairman of the UNICEF executive board.
Mrs. Harman delivered the annual Nobel Peace Prize lecture at the conclusion of the ceremonies, begun Friday, when the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to UNICEF. The award was accepted by Henry R. Labouisse, the organization’s executive director, who was also given a check for $56,000 to help UNICEF’s world-wide programs of aid to 750,000,000 children and mothers. Mrs. Harman, who is now serving the second term as the elected chairman of the UNICEF executive board, is the wife of Ambassador Avraham Harman, Israel’s envoy to Washington.
In her address, at the Nobel Institute here, Mrs. Harman pointed out that the nations of the world spend annually about $180,000,000,000 on arms, while UNICEF’s annual budget amounts only to a little over $35,000,000. “If only the nations of the world could together agree to spend a fraction of their outlay on building ‘deterrent strength’ for developing the capacity of the young generation to adjust in health and happiness to a dynamic society,” she pleaded. She pointed out that an atomic submarine costs $200,000,000, while the latest supersonic fighter planes are priced at $6,500,000.
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