The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Behind The New,
|Soviets' Men,
|AtomicOffe,
By FRANCIS W. CARpr~
Az Foreign News anaI,ta

After months of sayina ,
the Russians finally have Ao,'
and positive approach "a a Nsr
atomic problem. he
It would not pay to becou,.
timistic about it now. The Nv, %
lock On fundamentals stn asad'
But at least there is q eAlss,
the Russian thinking wbio %a IL
big possibilities. Iii
1t is simply this. The g..
Union admits it might be no S'sls'
to reach agreement on Fss's
control on the basis of the I.Oiol,
States and Russian plans, c T's'
are the only two big pron ,r.s'
that have been put befo rYOss''
United Nations Atomic En-. ,as
commission since it first ms
year ago today. "s'
Andrei A. Gromyko
deputy foreign minister. o,r n''!el
first official hint that the S,u 4e
Union saw any possibilities " ',.s'
United States plan. NE
In a way, this might eyentD,u.
be more important than tho 0l'I
rate scheme for international 'aUN
troll which Gromyko laid bst su'
the full atomic commission w.
Wednesday after a big adv.a aS
build-up. U'
Experts who have looked twin,
at Gromyko's proposition
Wednesday realize that it cbangsas
exactly nothing in the brosd sss
fundamental disagreement o WA.
the veto and national soyerejentr
on atomic matters. But thew ds
see Importance in the fact 4h.1
Gromyko had enlarged upon hi,
original plan, put before the deI,'
gates on June 10, 1916.
After the public p~ronouncem4,,
Gromyko went before the workirSS
committee of the commission N
a closed session THURSDAY and
ripped into the United States IN.
saying that the Soviet and Amer.
can plans must be considered
separately.
He said such thinking was Dsb.
solutely wrong" that we sbopd
not leave any method aside be-.
fore we consider it fully exhaust.
ed"
Then came this clincher from
the Russian:
Both plans (American and
Russian) must be considered ri.
simultaneously on their merits
This caused the Americans som.
surprise. They had grown &C.
customed to Gromyko's hands,oft
attitude toward their plan, which
had been written into the con.
missions first report by a ma.
jority of ten of the twelve men,
bers. They are waiting now to see
which way the wind will blow
next.
This is a day for stock-takins
on arms and atomics.
One year ago today Bernard N.
Baruch, no sitting on the side,
lines and keeping officially mum,
presented American plal,
which calls for no veto on punish
ing atomic criminals and for an
International atomic deveIopment
authority with full powers over tn.
atom everywhere.
The anniversary finds Russia
still insisting on a convention pro-
hibiting the atomic bomb lmrned'
ately and a separate convention
to be agreed upon later, setting
up the controls. The Russians
want the atomic regulations %
come within the final authority OF
the Security council, where they
have a veto.
Six months ago today the u n
general assembly approved uhah'
mously a resolution calling TO-
worldwide arms limitation and re-
duction and a cut in armed forces
Little progress has been m'ae
toward that goal.
Four months ago YESTERDAY M
Security council established h
commission for conVenlIOul
ornaments, which is to dfaT ~
recommendations for Wnackl'
ornaments and armed forces ~
far, that commission has not even
agreed on how to 60 ABOUT ~