Evening star., 1945-11-12
Joint Statement
ToFo||ow Talks
On Atom Control
Attlee Reported
Proposing Pool
To Share Secret
BY ]. A. FOX.

"A JOlnJ statement Will De Is
sued on the Truman-Attlee-Kin
atomic energy conference when
the President and the Prime
Ministers of Great Britain and
Canada have completed their
discussions, it was announced at
the White House today as the
three government chiefs contin-
ued their conversations.
Refusing comment on reports from
informed British quarters that Mr..
Attlee had recommended policy to
his associates under which other
members of the United Nations
would share in the secret of atomic
energy-now possessed only by the
United States, Great Britain and
Canada-if guarantees of proper use
were given, William D. Hassett, act
ing press secretary, said there
won't be anything from here except
the statement when the conference
ends. That is expected to be later
in the week
Attlee moves 10 Embassy.
The President and Prime Minister
Attlee were together this morning
before Mr.. Attlee ended his two-day
stay at the White House and moved
to the British Embassy, where he
will remain during the rest of his
visit here.
Just when the conference will be
resumed was not certain today.
Mr.. Hassett said presumably" Mr..
Attlee would rejoin President Tru-
man and Mr.. Mackenzie King at the
White House this afternoon, but
that at the British Embassy it was
said the Prime Minister would not
be back today.
Mr.. Attlee had a luncheon en-
gagement with Mr.. Mackenzie King
and the British Prime Minister
planned to spend most of the after
noon preparing the speech he will
deliver at joint session of Congress
tomorrow.
The three, Mr.. Hassett said, will
be in continuous conference-more
or less-until they complete their
talk" Mr.. Hassett said Secretary
of State Byrnes did not join in this
mornings discussion so far as he
knew.
The President, for the first time
in weeks, had no callers today. Mr..
Hassett said he dispensed with his
usual visiting list both to devote
himself to conference matters and
also because today is holiday.
/ The Attlee view was presented In
an informed quarter last night after
the three government leaders had
spent their second day in conference
on the problem of dealing with the
atomic bomb, and deyising a pro-
gram for peacetime use of atomic
energy.
Opposite of Truman Plan.
In its broader aspects 1t would
run directly counter to President
Truman's emphatic reiteration of
his opposition to sharing the secret
of bomb manufacture on which the
United States, Great Britain and
/ Canada collaborated.
In his last word on the subject.
in the Navy Day speech at New
York, Mr.. Truman said the talks
here would look toward a free ex-
change of fundamental scientific in
formation" but not "the processes
of manufacturing the atomic bomb
or any other instrument Of war"
Former Prime Minister Churchill
OF Great Britain has expressed him.
self as in accord with the American
viewpoint, which. it has been made
clear from Russian sources clashes
with that of the Soviet.
Mr.. Attlee was represented as
holding that atomic discoveries
should be shared as other scientific
advances accomplished by one ma
tion have been shared with others
providing that safeguards first are
set up.
Reds Would Outline Aims.
In this connection, it is under
stood that the Attlee plan contem-
plates that in return for the atomic
information, Russia would give her
associates a full statement of what
she considers her maximum secur-
ity requirements in the way of
overseas bases, acquisition of con-
ftiguous territory and spheres of
influence.
Mr.. Attlee, who has been favor
able to some form of United Nations
control of the atomic secret, is said
to have expressed to his conferees
(See ATTLEE, Page A-6.)