Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-12-14
Red Minister
Suspicious OF
US Atom Bomb

NEW YORk-(AP) THE world !
three mighticst military powers
,sd the United Nations toward cx.
nsctcd unanimous approval OF an
ir,crnational arms limitation pro.
"ram saturday. but Russia threat.
s,ed to press for global troop
Inventory even after the United
states and Great Britain had vol.
untarily disclosed some figures on
lheir armed forces.
While expressing complete &C.
,ord with the United States and
britain in the arms slash program
Soviet Foreign Minister V. NJ. Mol.
o,ov charged that Americas stock
nile of atomic bombs had been
huil, up for use against foreign
territory and not for defense.
Decisive steps
Molotov's declaration was one
hichlight of a pace-sctting assem-
hlv session that included these de-
cisive steps along the road toward
peace and security:
10 Secretary of State James +.
ByrncS disclosed to the world the
dispos,ion of all American troops
outside L. s. borders. setting the
figure "at less than $50. 600" and
thus became the first major power
10 meet RuSsia's original demand
for such data.
~ British Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin said his country was
ready 10 supply any information
desired. reported that Britain had
slashrd its forces from over g.
10000 to we'll below million
and observed that after occupation
commitments had been discharged
the figure would go down even
further.
80 BY vote OF 20 to &. with
Russia dissenting. the assembly
adopted II watcrcd-down resolution
on tho controversial ScCuritv-Coun-
al veto which does little more than
urge the Zig Five to use their spc-
cal voting privilege more sparing-
y.
- The way was paved for set
ting up L. Ms last .jor body
the tIu-tccship council - with the
approval! OF eight trustecship
agreements for league of nations
inundated territories submitted BY
Great Britain, France. Belgium.
New Zealand and Australia.
The assembly whipped through
these issues in sessions beginning
Friday and ending at l:22 q. III
EST Saturday in a specd-up cam
paign aimed at final adjournment
Byrn"S, Bevin and MolotOv en-
tas lsa. 49,, H. IL.
sion to give all their support TO
the arms limitation program which
had been mmercd out and final
~ approved unanimously in the
d.mcmhcr political and security
committee.
Byrnes Has Surprise
EvrncS. making his first plat
form appearance before the As
Semhly here. surprised the dele
gates by naming the countries
whci, American soldiers were
b.!."tcd and then set down the
exact figures on all units outside
former ANS territory.
In giving the troop count. the
Secretary OF State thus backed up
"h'' delegates y; his government
repeatedly have told tn" world
assembly the United States has
no'nl@r 20 hide -
Eygr'- announced first that
mns' OF the American troops
'hi''d were IN cN-cncmy territory
Germany. Japan. the japanese
Islands, Korea. Austria and Tn
este
II" then gave these specific ng-
ui"s on others:
IN" Philippines $4,000 military
personnel including 20. 900 combat
troops
'nlnn 10000 troops with $1,000
o. them combat men.
f1n1m ma 800.
hEiu"S dcclnrcd that tn" United
S,i''S had no combat units IN any
Vh'i country OF the world
reporting on non-COmhat mill
hIF personnel. he said the United
States had 600 men in Iceland and
40 IN the Azores.