Evening star., 1946-09-26
Vote on Atom Controls
Slated in j. n. Today;
Soviet Ballot in Doubt
RY fhe Asxociufad Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. T., Sept.
26.-ScientiStS of the United
Nations Atomic Energy Commits
sion were ready for a showdown
vote today on their report on
atomic energy controls, with
Soviet Russia holding the key to
a unanimous vote.
The Scientific and Technical Com
mittee of the commission, made up
of scientists from each of the IL ma
lions on the commission, was sum-
moned to secret session at the United
Nations headquarters here at 2 pm.
Committee members were repre-
sented as agreed that some final &C
ton must be taken on the report,
which was adopted after 18 meet.
ings, mostly in August, and which
has been awaiting the formal ap-
proval of Russia for about three
weeks.
Council Preparing Report.
Meanwhile, the U. N. Security
Council, resting after strenuous bat
ties over memberships, the Ukran-
ian-Greek case and the Russian de-
mand for information on troop dis
positions, turned to the comparative
ly simple matter of its report to the
General Assembly, which meets in
New York October %. The Council
scheduled closed meeting for $50
am. in United Nations Offices in
downtown Manhattan.
Prof. S. P Alexandrov, the Rus
sian scientist on the Technical Com
mittee, who came here from the
Bikini atomic bomb tests, was re-
ported to have agreed to the Scien-
tiflc Committees report as an in
dividual. But he was said to have
informed the committee he must
obtain official approval from Mos
cow before Russia would be COM
mitted to the report-and that off,
cial approval so far has not been
communicated to the committee.
An informed source said the re-
port, which contains no recon-
mendations, would come out of the
committee regardless OF RusSia's
stand. II Russia still is not ready
to adopt it formally today, this
source said, the committee could
ask Mr.. Alexandrov to approve it
finally as an individual to get it out
Of committee or could vote and
merely record Russia's objection or
abstention.
Poland May Dissent.
Possibly excepting Poland, the
other nations on the committee were
represented as ready to sign the re-
port formally.
The report was said to deal with
broad measures of control needed
to harness effectively atomic en-
ergy. 1t was reported as making
no attempt to resolve the differ
ences between the United States
and Russian plans for atomic en-
ergy control.
Last June the United States pro-
posed a plan outlawing atomic
weapons, setting up an atomic de-
velopment authority and providing
for international control and in
spections. Russia countered, also
in June, with a plan outlawing
atomic weapons, leaving control
and restrictive legislation to indi-
vidual states, and giving the Sc
curity Council the final power Of
enforcing controls.
The United States advocated
abolition of the veto power in the
Security Council on atomic matters.
Russia has stoutly maintained the
veto power must be held inviolate.
The Commissions Committee No.
2, which is in effect a working
committee of the whole commission
dealing with political aspects Of
the case, was reported scheduled
to meet Tuesday. DR.. c. L. Hsia
of China is chairman of the Atomic
Energy Commission and Of Com
mittee No. 2.