MOVES FOR GENERAL DISARMAMENT

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 5

MOVES FOR GENERAL DISARMAMENT

(Press Assn.-

-i ■■ ■■ ■. ■■ > - * AMERICAN COWmm0. proposal referred tc| spegial sub'committer

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NEW YORK, Feb,- 5, Mr. Warren Austin, the American delegate, told tM S icurity Council that the United S'.ates would never consent to o;:iy internatiopal plan for ariris rcduction until "concrete- aiid eni'orceable safeguards" were created to make siire that there '•"'ould be iio violations. . Mr. Austin moved a resolution pfb-. viding for immediate general ' ' dlsr aimament discussions, but still gxiing: priority to atomic energy eontrol, He proposed th^t the council should cmsider the Atomic Enei'gy Comihission's report at its next meeting, anjd that a commission uf 11 nationg fiije established immediately, to stiidy ihjj plans for the rediuction aftd control of all arms except atomic weapons. . The resolution represented a eoihpromise on the previous United Sthtea, stand that there must be inteinatiohii agreement on atomic energy any other form of disatm&ment Could J)e considered. > ' ' Mr. Austin -said the resolution represented the best thoughts of ' Presi^ dent"Ti'uman, Mr. George Marshall, the Secretary of State, and the Wai1 Secretary, Mr. Patterson." J The United States GovernmenU sincerely believedi that the resolution would provide the most, etfec--;. tive first' steps toward disarmameTitV. and the establishment of frecdbm" from the appalling fear of war. M. -Gromyko (Russia) said that thie American resolution was unnfecessat# and would cause delay in the estalfe lishment of the Disarmament Cofnriiis- . sion already proposed in the SOviet resolution previousl^ submitted. He added that the Atomic Energy Chhimis sion's repqrt was already on th« douncil's agenda for consideratioh soon. k Colonel Hasluck (Australia) said that he could not support either Fussia or the United States. He suggeste'd that the delegates, who had submitteS resolutions on disarmament/ should •onfer and draw up one resolution which the coujicil would accept. The council accepted Colonel Hasluck'^ oi'oposal and appointed a sub-eommitr tee comprising Australia, Belgium) Oolombia, France, the United States and Russia, which ,will meet •' tdmorrow.