Evening star., 1946-10-30
u. NJ.
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minute speech at the close of yes
terday's session, and the Australian
statement marked the first phase
OF joined debate in the Assembly.
The so-called general debate
which began last Thursday thus
far had been a series of policy
statements from the chief delegates
on pending world problems. How
ever, several chief delegates speak
ing today withdrew their prepared
texts for alterations after Mr..
Molotovs speech.
Mr.. Maxim said the charge that
the veto issue is being used to build
up certain nations "is nothing but
a distortion of the facts"
New Tensions Feared.
Meanwhile, fears of new tensions
between Russia and the western
powers over atomic controls, dis
armament, the veto and other
critical issues swept through many
United Nations Assembly delega-
tions as diplomats from so other
member countries debated the chal-
lenging policy, speech hurled into
the Assembly by Mr.. Molotov.
The Russian Foreign Minister
assailed Winston Churchill as a
prophet" of aggressive, imperialist
circles" in America and Britain and
blasted Bernard Baruch, American
member of the U. N Atomic Com
mission, for allegedly holding a
militant philosophy" leading toward
a new aggression"
He attacked the American atomic
control plan as designed to give
this country an atomic monopoly
asserted abolition of the veto would
wreck the United Nations, and de-
manded u N. report on American
and British troops in foreign lands.
Gaping his address with the
four point arms reduction plan, he
urged the Assembly to act on it at
once. This produced one of the
most dramatic incidents in the
Assembly to date.
Mr.. Molotov had spoken in Rus
sian. When he finished he had to
wait through two long translations
of his 7,000-Word speech, one into
English, the other into French.
When the Interpreters finished,
Assembly President Paul Henri
Spaak of Belgium asked if there
was any more business before he
adjourned the session. The hall was
already largely empty.
Mr. Molotov sprang suddenly to
his feet and said: The Soviet dele
cation calls on the other delegations
to express their views on disarma-
ment."
Noel-Baker Objects.
The other delegations were caught
off guard, but Philip Noel-Baker,
Britain's graying chief delegate,
promptly rose and objected that
there was neither time nor prepara-
ton for such a debate. Mr.. Molotov
insisted but was overruled by Mr..
Spaak.
His insistence on the point, how
ever, left no doubt that pushing the
disarmament plan would almost
certainly be Russia's primary con-
cern during the remainder of this
session. The four points of his
plan are:
/. The General Assembly should
declare that it considers general
reduction of armaments necessary"
2. 1t should particularly call for
"banning the manufacture and use
Of atomic energy for military pur-
poses" This would put the United
Nations on record as demanding
that the United States stop making
atomic bombs.
3. The Assembly should call on
the Security Council to carry out
those two objectives.
4. The Assembly should also call
on all member governments to CO.
operate in the arms reduction and
atomic bomb ban projects.
other Major Points.
But the armaments plan occupied
only a small portion of Mr., Molo-
tov's text and in the rest he made
these major points bearing on