Soviet’s Atomic Proposals Are Suspected By Western Powers

Grey River Argus, 4 October 1948, Page 5

Soviet’s Atomic Proposals Are Suspected By Western Powers

(Received October 3, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, October 2.

Russia’s offer of a compromise proposals to break the two-year deadlock on the control of atomic energy means that she appears to be willing to abandon her previous demand tnac all atomic weapons shall be scrapped and banned before international machinery for atomic control is set up. In spite of the new Russian proposals, Eastern and Western ideas about atomic control are still Dole apart. There is still no indication that Russia and the Western Powers will be able to agree on what form effective control will , take -. Western Powers’ delegates believe that Russia’s move may have been designed to place on them the blame for the breaking off of negotiations on atomic control. Mr. Warren Austin (United States; replying to M. Vyshinsky’s PipPpsal s ; has issued the following statement. "It is the view of my delegation that the Soviet proposals fails to cariy any assurance that the Soviet is p epared to accept the central plan of lie United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. This plan is the resu t of thirty-one months continuous effort bv technicians and statesmen, who are agreed that it embodies only the effective system _ which would ensure the harnessing o atomic energy in the service of mankind Other Western Powers’, delegates said they saw no compromise in Russia’s new atomic energy proposals. They said that the Russian resolution would put the United Nations on record as saying that the work of the United Nations’ Security Council’s atomic Commission’s work had not. yielded a positive result, which was directly opposed to the Canadian proposal for the Assembly to approve the Commission s majority report. The delegate said that they were going ahead with plans to demand a vote of confidence from the United Nations Assembly.