WORLD PROBLEMS REVIEWED

Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 2

WORLD PROBLEMS REVIEWED

AMERICAN EX- GENERAL AS SECRETAKY OF STATE Keceived Sundav, 7 p.m. WASH1NGT0N, Feb. S. The Secretafy of State, Mr. .\Larsliall, at his iirst press conference siace tak , ing ottice, aunounced that the American proposal to place the fornier .fapanese aiandated lsiands under United States ' ' strategic " trusteesliip, wiil be sub uiitted to the Seeurity"" Couneil aboul February 17. Despite suggestions i>\ Sritain, Kussia and Austraiia ttiat tne disposition of the islamls shouh' be postponed until the .lapanese peace treaty was negotiated, Mr. Marshal) said he saw 110 reason wliy the niatter should be postponed but United States would willingly eonsider any postponement proposed by the Seeurity Couneil. Discussing disatniameut, Mr. Marshall said: "It is diriicult to see hu\v there can be any real disarnr..nent or substantial redu(?tion of armainents until the problems of niainteuance of international peace have lieen solved. " He added that United States was primarilv concerned with solving the problems of 'atomic energy control. " International jontrol of atomic energy with adequate safeguards, is of first iinportance, ' ' he said. "It is not a problem of disaniiament in the con veutional seuse. Maukind can ne\'ei feeJ secure as long as this great des tructive force remains uucont rolled. fihat is vvhy we are giving priinary einphasis to solving the pcoblems it presents. ' ' Mr. Marshall said he was sure United States Governnient will avoid a repeti tion of the tragic consequences oi tui 'lateral disarmament and limitation. of ■irmaments as in 19121. The probiem cannot be'solved 011 an ^niotional basis rhis timeUt had to be on a practical basis.

Mr. Marshall said United States was being kept fylly infornied of the difti■ult Palestine negotiations in London. He rejected the general assumpfion that Brifain was taking strong militar\ action in Palestine. }Te warned that unless United States instituted nniversal military training it would not have any real power to ba k up its foreigu policy. Alr. Marshall said he and Mr. Tru man and the State Department had abandoned mediation in China becau^fi •all felt it was not appropriate that ' 'such a shell or semblance of negotiations" should be continued. He welcomed the tarif'f statement by Senators Vandenberg and ilillikin as gaving the world the first indication that the bipartisan attitude towards politieal and foreign affairs may now lie extended to international and eeonomic matters. Mr. Marshall . said United States' policy towards Argentina was 'tui changed since the former Secreta-y of State, Mr. Bvrnes' statement announcing that TTnited Scates could not negotiate a hemispheric defence pact with Argentina until that eountrv complied with its inter-American commitments. ! IMr. Marshall thought the chances of holding an inter-American conference 'in 1947 to frame a defence pact were reasonably good. Mr. iMarshall said the'Soviet had in formed him that ohl'y l."i to -ti Amen can correspondents could be accotnmo 1 dated at ^^osco^v for the Big( Fo'w j Foreign Ministers' conference. He wa j trying to have thc number in-rease-' .and also to arrange brpadcasting facili j ties. Seventy-three American reporter 'had thu'sfar applied for visas to go ti j Moscow.