THE British coordinating committee for European Nuclear Disarmament has recently convened a constitutional conference with a view to establishing a permanent organisation As founders of this committee, , we have therefore had to decide how to relate to the new We have vi callisallul considered this carefully, and it is our agreed decision not to participate further in the work of We feel that a structured British organisation of this kind Goes not flave all! particular function. There exists arcoicoculaLIve international committee for European Nuclear Disarmament in the daison Committee which convenes the European Conventions.
There are also a . variety of other international coordinating mechanisms, grouping both general and particu ar interests At home, in Britain, it is difficult to see what the new grouping will seek to do that is not already being covered by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or other specialist bodies.
When we established the co-ordinating committee it was agreed that it would offer no organisations, and that it served only to present the idea of European Nuclear Disarmament to the peace movements as they already embodied themselves The initial project when we need car an idea, not an elaborate apparatus. Such a structure absorbs purposes. energies anc resources which might