Evening star., 1946-10-09
Atomic Plan Stands,
Baruch Says; Lie Hints
That He viii intervene
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carefully as he struck at Soviet
Russia's stand that the control in
spections insisted on by America
would violate national sovereignty.
Lie departed from his prepared
text to hint at intervention.
AS released, the Lie text on the
atomic control debate said:s
1T is not my duty to take sides in
that debate
However, in delivering his speech,
Mr.. Lie changed the quotation to
state:
ut Is not my duty, at least at the
time being, to take sides in that
debate"
Doesn't Call Name.
Mr.. Baruch did not mention Mr.
Wallace by name. However, there
was no question as to whom he was
referring when he said:
"On the question of principles,
1t is an inalienable right each of
VS. has to express opinions on
every policy animating this country,
whether national or interna tional.
That is the highest function of those
who live under a political democ-
racy: of those who cherish the
right Of free speech. Every man has
the right to an opinion, but no man
has right to be wrong in his
facts. Nor, above all, to persist in
errors as to facts"
Mr.. Baruch has declared that Mr..
Wallace admitted to him errors"
in facts in Mr.. Wallace'ss assault on
the Baruch plan. but Mr.. Baruch
charged that Wallace has refused to
acknowledge them publicly
Text of Baruch Speech.
The text of Mr.. Baruch's address
follows:
Mr. Toastmaster, Mrs. Roosevelt,
and my fellow guests of FREEDOM
House:
I deeply appreciate this honor. It
Is heightened by the Importance of
the organization conferring it, and
further stressed by the one who has
placed it in my hands-Mrs. Roose-
welt. In herself, she represents a
spirit that was given flesh by her
great husband, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who was never more
needed than at this moment of
peril and confusion-for he was un-
afraid.
This award, If deserved at all, is
deserved primarily by my devoted
associates who have helped me for
mulate the American atomic pro-
posals. The President, the Secre-
tary of State and certain senatorial
advisers have given full authorize
ton of our program. That program
still stands-generous and just. And
no amount of deliberately. created
confusion shall prevail against it.
The plaque reads:
There must be no veto for those
who violate their solemn agree
ments."
Text Exemplifies Point.
am happy that freedom house
chose this text, for it exemplifies
one of the weightiest points in the
American attitude-the- nonappli-
cation of the great powers veto to
protect offenders, once treaty OF
prevention and punishment dealing
with atomic energy has been agreed
upon. Our proposal is concerned
with the veto power only as it af-
fects this particular problem, and
not with the general veto written
into the structure of the United
Nations. IS
AS to the veto, I repeat: The
bomb does not wait upon debate.
To delay may be to die. The time
between violation and prevention
action or punishment would be all
too short for extended discussion as
to the course to be followed"
This peace we are enjoying-if
that be the right word-threatenss
to become what a German his
torian said peace Is: A brief inter-
lude between wars.
Never were the opening words of
the American proposal so true as
they are at this time: "We are here
to make a choice between the quick
and the dead. That is our business"
America asks nothing she is not
willing to give. All of us must make
contributions. '''-
Won't Ask Destruction of Bomb.
But I would be recreant to my
trust if I dared to recommend the
immediate abandonment of ma jor
weapon in our arsenaIthe bomb.
How can any one ask destruction
of existing bombs unless their fur
ther manufacture is effectively pro-
hibited? Why should America
alone be asked to make sacrifices by
way of unilateral disarmament in
the cause of international good will?
If equality of sacrifice be needed,
then each should participate.
I firmly believe that the American
proposals plead the cause and con-
tain a rough approach to the aboli-
tion not only of one instrument of
war but of war itself.
I now say that America stands
ready to prescribe and destroy the
atom bomb-to lift its use from
death to life-if the world will join
in a pact to insure the worlds Sc
curity from atomic warfare. But it
must be realistic working pact
not merely pious expression of in
tent, wholly lacking in methods of
enforcement.
Willing to Accept Inspection.
Our proposals were submitted on
June H. Some weeks later came the
frank, unqualified statement of Am
bassador Gromyko, declaring the
American plan, as presented, unac-
ceptable to the Soviets, either in full
or in part. He has repeated this po-
sition several times.
The Soviets protest that inspection
violates national sovereignty Bet
ter that-than international dis
aster. America is willing to accept
inspection as a control measure and
for some time America would be the
most inspected.
I am at loss to understand why
national sovereignty should be made
such a fetish. Other international
processes require the presence of Of
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