CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY
sir-in order to prove that the Soviet Government was willing to give up its right of veto in July, 1946, Mr. Ferguson quotes an extract from a speech made by Vyshinsky more than three years later, in November, 1949. He could hardly, I suppose, have quoted from the speech made by Gromyko in 1946, for Gromyko made it perfectly clear that the Soviet Government had no intention of either allowing any inspection of Soviet atomic plants or surrendering its veto. ; In 1946 the only nation with atomic weapons was the United States. Gromyko proposed that all atomic stockpiles should be immediately destroyed. Had this proposal been accepted, the Soviet Government would almost certainly have occupied the rest of Europe, for the Western Powers, demobilised and exhausted, could have offered little resistance to the Soviet forces, which had been kept on a war footing. Sir Winston Churchill has expressed the view that Western Europe owes its freedom to American possession of the atomic bomb, and few will disagree with him, except Reds and fellow-travellers.
G.H.
D.
(Greenmeadows).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 5
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