Evening star., 1946-07-25
u. NJ.
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the British, still believe in setting
up semiautonomous international
atomic develcss.sent authority and
a system whereby serious violations
of that authority's rules would be
subject to Security Council action
to which no veto could apply.
They believe in such a plan and
they believe it can be sold Some
of them, in fact, are understood to
feel that Russian opposition to it
must be based, at least in part, on
misunderstanding of some of its
provisions.
But the great question in every
body's mind remained: Was Mr.
Gromyko assuming a bargaining po-
sition yesterday, or did he really
mean it when he said the latest
American proposals cannot be ac-
cepted in any way by the Soviet
either as whole or in their sep
arate parts"
See Reason for Hope.
STRENGTHENING diplomats thought
there was reason to hope it was not
the last word. They observed Mr.
Gromyko didn't say forever" nor
did he say positively" Above all
they drew attention to the mitigat-
ing fact that the Russian delegate
referred to the United States pro-
posals "in their present form"
1t was pointed out that Mr.. Gro
myko, if he was assuming a bar
gaining position, might have in
mind something more than the fact
that the Soviet plan, calling for de-
istruction of its bombs by the United
States before rather than after a
control system goes into operation
will be before the group for discus
sion tomorrow.
The Paris Peace Conference is
coming along. too, and if the west
ern powers want real international
atomic control badly enough they
might be willing to consider a few
handy concessions at Paris in ex-
change for Russian agreement to
something like the United States
plan.
In the view of other observers
however, the sinister thing about
what Mr.. Gromyko had to say yes.
terday was not so much the explicit
rejection of American proposals
quoted above-the closing words Of
his statement-nor even his out.
right refusal to go along with the
idea that the great powers shoulc
yield their Security Council veto
where questions of atomic energy
control are concerned. For the
former admittedly was not alto.
gether unqualified and the latter
had been anticipated to some ex-
tent.
Attack on American Idea.
Most sinister of all, according to
this view was his attack on the con-
cept, basic to the American idea OF
what is necessary if the atom is to
be brought under mans control
that the nations must surrender a
limited portion of their sovereignty
to an international control authority
Mr.. Gromyko pointed to Article 2
paragraph 7 of the u. N. Charter,
which sets forth that nothing con-
tanned in the present Charter shall
authorize the United Nations to in
tervene in matters which are essen
TALLY within the domestic jurisdic-
ton of any state y" He said,
and nobody argued with him, that
the United States sought to make
this article inapplicable to matters
OF atomic energy by establishing that
all such matters are of international
and not national Importance and
jurisdiction.
He added this move threatens the
principle of sovereignty on which the
whole U. N. structure rests, and he
polished things off with dark hint
that any tampering with the prin-
ciple of sovereignty might jeopardize
the very existence of the U. N.
II his words could be taken at
their face value they meant that
Russia was closing the door on
international inspection of atomic
energy production, international
ownership and management OF
mining operations of fashionable
materials and all other points in
the Baruch plan which rest on the
assumption that nations will have