Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-15
u. n. Delegates
ReactFavorab|y
ToAton1 Offer
Comment Reserved
Until Foreign Capitals
Study All implications
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, June 15.-Favor-
able reaction was shaping up to-
day for the principles of the
United States rigidly condi-
toned offer to scrap the atomic
bomb monopoly in exchange for
a guaranteed world front out
having the weapons of mass de-
struction.
Foreign capitals, however, reserved
official comment until the govern
ments have thoroughly reviewed the
drastic political implications of the
plan laid before the United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission yester-
day by United States Delegate
Bernard M. Baruch.
The first British press comment
was favorable to the American plan
and members of the United States
Senate and atomic scientists gave
it an enthusiastic reception.
No Comment Now.
Delegates to the 12-nation Atomic
Commission, while praising Mr..
Baruch's presentation as a moving
and historic document, indicated
they would have nothing to say
about its substance before the COM
mission assemblies again next We'd
nesday afternoon.
After listening solemnly to Mr..
Baruch's proposal to establish an
international atomic development
authority but only after all the
countries have met the clad
conditions laid down by the United
States, the delegates dispatched his
4.500-Word document to their home
governments.
These conditions provide for the
abolition of the Big Five veto power
in relation to the operation of
the Atomic Development Authority
(ADA) as an all-powerful agency
in its field, armed with unprece-
dented authority of search, seizure
and punishment.
Demand for Guarantees.
Mr.. Baruch made it clear that
the United States proposed to have
guarantees meeting all the speci-
fed conditions before making the
final bomb-disposal commitments
in treaties which must be ratified
by a two-thirds majorit y of the
Senate and by the several govern
ments in the United Nations.
He emphasized the condition that
the Big Five powers must yield
their veto in the Security Council
so far as it relates to the field OF
atomic energy.
1.-The tU. M Charter permits
penalization only by concurrence oil
each of the five great powers-th.
U. S. S. R., the United Kingdom
China. France and the United
States he said. 80 There mus
be no veto to protect those who VIC.
late their solemn agreements not tt
develop or use atomic energy fol-
destructive purposes"
If all the conditions are met, Mr.
Baruch said, then the United States
would destroy existing atomic bombs
would make no more and would give
the ADA full information as to the
know-how for the production of
atomic energy"
Among the first voicing approval
of the American plan, were atomic
scientists and members of the United
States Senate.
Praised by Scientists.
A group of American scientists in
pludino Nphol D,i1o u,iooar. Antl,,x.
H. Compton of Washington Univer-
sity at st. Louis, and Harold H.
Urey of the University of Chicago
both of them wartime researchers
on atomics-met Immediately after
Mr.. Baruch's speech.
In statement they said they we're
especially stirred by his "insistence
on the supreme Importance of the
issue of international control OF
atomic energy to the survival of
civilization" They praised the plan
as "eminently sound and construc-
tive"
ThS strongest Endorsement came
from Frederic Joliot-Curie, another
Nobel Prize winner and head of the
French scientific advisory group
attending the commission meetings
He told newsmen that if the
United States plan is not accepted
by the world I'VE scientists sho,lf
feel called upon to discontinue -:
research in this field-to refuse tt
become a party to the prostitution
of science"
"A possible boycott by scientists i.
the last resort" M. Joliot- Curie
said. Il hope and believe there will
be agreement"
The United Nations Human Rights
Commission last night unanimousl,
adopted United States proposal tt
give a subcommission on women tn,
status of a full commission.