HUGE U.S. EXPENDITURE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1948, Page 5

HUGE U.S. EXPENDITURE ON ATOMIC ENERGY

(Rec. 1 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 About 480 million dollars would be spent during the next year on the Hanford atomic works in the Richland Kennewick Pasco region in Washington, said Senator Harry Cain. He said that the Atomic Energy Commission had told him that funds would be spent at an average rate of twenty million dollars monthly. He also reported that ton military officials had classified the Washington State as one of the highest importance and 400 million dollars had been earmarked for defence purposes in the State. ~ PARIS, Oct. 9.

The 11-nation sub-committee which is charged with the drawing up of a compromise atomic energy resolution approved bv nine votes to two the key paragraph in a resolution endorsing the United Mates plan for atomic control. It rejected by the same vote a Russian attempt "not to mve anv appraisal of the work of the Atomic Energy Commission.” The committee adjourned until Monday to consider a new draft of the Canadian resolution, asking the Secretary-General to reconvene the Atomic Energy Commiss’on to determine whether there exists a basis for agreement. When the sub-committee adjourned on Friday it was still bogged down on the first paragraph of the Canadian resolution. The sub-committee is charged with examining the following six proposals already before the political Committee of the General Assembly: 1. The Soviet compromise plan, conceding that the destruction and banning of the atomic bomb should be accepted by all nat’ons at the same time as “effective international control of atomic energy production.” (Previously the Russians had insisted that destruction should come before control.) 2. The Canadian draft resolution calliing on the General Assembly to pronounce judgment on the East-West deadlock in the Atomic Energy Commission.

NEW ZEALAND PLAN 3. The New Zealand plan that the Big Five and Canada should consult together after the present session of the General Assembly “to determine when there might exist a basis for agreement on International control.” 4. The Australian proposal that the Atomic Energy Commission “continue its meetings and deliberations to guide and assist the nations in the discharge of their responsibilities for international control.” 5. The Syrian plan that the Atomic Energy Commission go ahead with the drawing up of <• treaty fpr control based on the views of the Western majority 6. The Indian reslution suggested that the Soviet compromise plan indicates that a new situation has arisen and calling on the commission to prepare a draft treaty in

the light of this situation. The chairman (Sir Nosing Ran) ruled on Friday that the sub-com-mittee should consider the resolutions in th° order of. submission.