The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-12-17
HARVESTING
 OF ATOM IS
 BIG ISSUE
Bdrueh Demands Approv- al of U. 5. PIdn-Mdkes
 Brief, Pointed Talk
By FRANCIS w. CARPENTER

| DJ AAe<hANOAO OhIsA E4if A3IN 1 LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y, Dec. IT. The United States lost its fight today for immediate approval of it's plan for controlling atomic energy after Soviet Russia pleaded for de- lay to study the proposal paragraph by paragraph.
 Bernard M. Baruch, U. s. dele gate who had come to the meeting with the full intention of getting a decision today. finally agreed to adjournment until Friday, but crit icized delays and delays" in com mission action.
 | Andrei A. Gromyko. Soviet dele | gate, countered Baruch's call for immediate action with a Soviet warning against rushing" in this matter.
 1 Baruch answered.:
 Holidays, delays and delays time goes by. then years go by and nothing is done"
 He finally left the time of the meeting in the hands of the chair.
 Gromyko, who has set in on vir- tually every meeting of the atomic commission and of it's political com mittee since the American plan was 1 Iaid down last June 14, said he had not had an opportunity to study the lU. s. resolutions presented Dec. 5. which embodied the essential fea- lures of the American plan. He wanted to survey them in the light of the arms resolution adopted by the General Assembly last Satur- day
 LAKE SUCCESS, N Y, Dec. IT. Bernard M Baruch formally call ed upon the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission today to ap- prove the United States plan for harnessing the atom.
 In a brief speech to the full meeting of the commission, Baruch said that the question had been 1 dehated long enough and that the time for action had come.
 Baruch, the United States repre- sentative of the Atomic Energy i Commission, came to the meeting with the determination to push for a decision as soon as possible. i Ire commission is considering policy for it's political committee to follow in drafting the recommends tions section of report the com- mission must make to the United Nations Security Council by Dec. 3l.
 Emphasizing that the United States stood firm on it's plan first put forward last June IA, Baruch said:
 We have no pride of authorship, but we can not, in justice to our trust, accept changes in purpose. We have debated long enough l He said that the debates on arms limitations in the United Ma tions General Assembly and the speeches, of Vyacheslay M Molotov, Soviet Russian foreign minister, and Finest Beyin, Britain's foreign sec I retary, had covered much of the 1 ground on atomic matters. 1 Referring to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes' speech to the Assembly, Baruch said that Byrnes had brought the United Nations and the public to a refreshed under standing of the fact that abstract. ions have been debates, and it is now up to us-the Atomic Commis- sion-to present an immediate, a practical and realistic program"
 Apparently referring to the top priority given the atomic problem by the General Assembly in its res olution on arms limitation, Baruch said:
 We have accepted the duty and we much proceed promptly to it's fulfillment, we believe, and our work follows this belief, that the best way of gaining our objective is to do first things first. In the very forefront of that effort lies ! the control of atomic energy If We are able to solve that vast prob- lem, the others will come easier"