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Papers of M H F Wilkins: speeches and related papers concerning a manifesto against world hunger and the launch of Food and Disarmament International

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Speech texts by Wilkins and others, with related correspondence and notes, concerning a statement signed by 53 Nobel Prize winners (including Wilkins) on the urgent need for governments to work together to prevent starvation around the world, and the subsequent endorsement of the statement by the European Parliament. File includes: statements issued by the new international pressure group, Food and Disarmament International (FDI), draft speeches by Wilkins (undated), statement by Wilkins for the European Parliament, Strasbourg, Nov 1981; speech by Bradford Morse, United Nations Development Programme, to the European Parliament, Oct 1981; speech by Edouard Saouma, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations, Oct 1981; speech by Willy Brandt, Chairman, Independent Commission on International Development Issues, Oct 1981.

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Papers of M H F Wilkins: speeches and related papers concerning a manifesto against world hunger and the launch of Food and Disarmament International

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