The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-31
REDUCTION OF ARMS TO
 GET AIRING
Disarmament Question Is Placed on Agendd of
 UNGeneraI Assembly

NEW YORK, Oct. 31. - Soviet Russia's proposals for world arms reduction were assured full air ing in the United Nations Assembly when the 14-nation General Con- mittee decided today to include the disarmament question in the As sembly's agenda.
 The Committee agreed unani- mously to send the armaments is sue to the 51-nation Assembly and to have it referred immediately to the Assembly's Political Committee The proposal to put the question on the agenda was offered by Bri- tish delegate Philip J. Noel-Baker as soon as the general (steering) committee met.
 T accept the proposal of the re- presentative of the United King dom," Soviet delegate Andrei Y Vishinsky.
 No other delegates spoke on the question.
 All Arms Proposals
 Committee action on the arms is- sue was confined to the Soviet pro- posals, but it was taken for grant, ed that once they came up the de- bate would embrace all arms pro- posas including demands by the United States that adequate in- spection and enforcement measures be adopted along with any limita- tion action.
 These safeguards were expected to provide the issue over which the major powers would clash when the debate finally started.
 Soviet Foreign Minister V. M Molotov seeks to reduce arms and outlaw atomic weapons by agree ment, but Warren R. Austin, Chief of the U. S. Delegation, declared last night that the United Nations must go beyond that to guard against secret armament.
 Armament Question
 Noel Bakers action was the first indication that Britain favored a discussion of the armaments ques- ton. He had protested that he was unable to enter into an immediate discussion of the question at the end of Tuesdays session when Mol otov called for comment on the Soviet proposals.
 There still was no indication what position Britain would take on the Soviet proposals themselves, but i was regarded likely that she woulc back U. S. demands for an inspec- tion system, since that has beer the British position in the contro- versy over atomic control.
 Molotov was not present at tht committee meeting.
 For Concrete Inspection
 Austin later said definitely tha' the United States would offer con. crete inspection proposals when ths Political Committee started woll on the arms question.
 Acting on a five-nation demand the Steering Committee decided tt place the long-fought issue o' Franco Spain on the Assembly agenda and send it to the politica Committee for action.
 The request that the issue bt made a separate item on the agen. da came in a letter from the dele gations of Belgium, Czechoslovakia Denmark, Norway and Venezuela 1T which these countries declared tha 'the attitude of the United Nation! toward the regime in Spain is O great concern to members of th' United Nations"
 Some delegates privately consid cred it significant of the state O. United Nations affairs that one O. the most heavily applauded asser' tions in Austins American polio. speech to the Assembly last nigh was this: After the last war WI tthe United States made the mis take of disarming unilaterally. w shall not repeat that mistake"
 Austin told Molotov and othe Assembly delegations that while h' accepted Russia's four-point pro gram designed to speed world arm compacts i've cannot reduce arm merely by talking about it."
 WASHINGTON - Chairman Ro ger Slaughter, D., Mo. announces the House Surplus Committee vii start an investigation Nov. 19 int proposed disposal by the govern ment of the big and little incl pipp1ippS