Evening star., 1946-12-16
u. n. Atomic Board
SHES From Controls
Demanded by U. 5.
By the Associated Pres.


By the Associated Press
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Dec. 16
The United Nations Atomi,
Energy Commission was saif
authoritatively today to be con.
sidering a report which thus fal
lacks the essential control fea.
lures demanded by the United
States as the price for yielding
its atomic secrets to the world
The commissions delegates were
called into closed session today al
a committee to study the report
which must be made to the United
Nations Security Council by De-
cember 81.
An informed source said that the
working paper now before the dele
gates included a statement on pro-
cedures, section on findings and
third section on recommendations.
Deadline Is Pressing.
Instead of including a concrete
plan for control, this source added,
the section on recommendations
deals so far only with relatively un-
important features, such as what
types Of inspectors are necessary in
controls.
The delegates, who have been
working steadily to frame their re-
port, have avoided a vote on con-
troll plan, it was said. There was no
present indication when or if such a
vote would be taken, but the De-
cember 81 deadline is pressing.
The United States has urged the
delegates to agree unanimously on
the control plan offered last June
IA by Bernard M. Baruch, elder
statesman and United States men,
ber Of the commission.
The General Assembly in its
closing days served emphatic notice
that it considers the atom the most
pressing problem. 1t adopted unan-
imously a world arms limitation
resolution which charts the way to
eventual outlawing of atomic
weapons and other means of mass
destruction.
Mandate to Hurry.
With this mandate to hurry, the
Atomic Energy Commission also was
given free hand in a specific para
graph, insisted on by the United
States, providing that the commits
sion would not be hindered or
tampered with by anything con-
tanned in the sweeping terms of the
resolution.
The situation basically is this:
The United States has presented
q plan which it said had the mini
mum conditions under which it
would surrender the atomic bomb |
secrets. This provided for an atomic |
development authority or some SINH |
lar international control having
complete authority over the atomic |
life OF the nations. 1t called for
swift punishment of violators. |
The United States also insisted
that any atomic control must be
the big power veto in the
Security Council.
Soviet Russia countered last June |
with plan for outlawing the bomb
by international treaty and leaving |
of violators up to in
dividual nations. Russia also re-
jected the rigid inspection and con-
troll demanded by the United States, |
contending such international fea-
lures violated national sovereignty. |
Russia, in fact, rejected the whole
United States plan in July.
However, the United States dele
cation and the others in the COM
kept working. /
In October Prime Minister Stain
Of Russia said that international
control was necessary.
Russian Foreign Minister Molo-
tov proposed abolition of the atomic |
bomb in a resolution on general |
arms limitation and eventually, in |
a tense 20 minutes early in Decem-
ber, told the Assembly's Political
Committee that Russia would agree |
to a system of inspection and con-
trolls on which the veto would not |
apply but which would operate
within the framework of the Sc
curity Council.
Baruch Seeks Agreement.
Things moved rapidly-for such
natters-after that. Mr.. Baruch
came in quickly with his request to
the commission to agree on a plan
which carried the essentials of the
United States plan.
Mr.. Baurch was said to have con-
ferred often with Secretary of State
Byrnes in the closing days of the
Assembly. A representative of the
Atomic Commission attended all
meetings, open and secret, of the
committees dealing with arms limi-
,ation, and at the end the United
States succeeded In putting through
The paragraph which in effect kept
hands off the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
DIR. Manuel Sandoval Vallarta,
Mexican scientist and former pro-
fessor at Massachusetts, Institute |
Of Technology, is chairman OF the
commission, succeeding Alexandra
Parod of France in the regular
rotation. DR.. Vallarta, however, will