Evening star., 1947-01-05
Text of Buruch Letters

unanimous action is important, ii
must not be gained at the expense
of principle. To do that would be
to lull the world into false sense
of security.
Opposed Secondary Veto.
As you and the Secretary of State
are aware, in all of our insistences
that there, shall be no legal right,
by veto or otherwise, whereby a will
full violator of the terms of the
treaty or convention shall be pro-
tected from the consequences of
violation of it's terms" (the language
of the report), we did not attack the
general right of veto in the Security
Council. We opposed the secondary
veto upon enforcement or punish
ment, called for by a treaty. if the
treaty were approved by the Sc
curity Council and ratified "by the
several nations necessary to assure
its success"
Let me say word as to the final
vote:
France. the United Kingdom and
China together with the United
States are the four great powers ap-
proving the principles that were
acted upon by the commission. The
six other nations were Australia,
Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, the Neither
lands and Canada Those countries,
excepting Canada, plus the two
abstainers Russia and PolandD COM
pose, as you know, the Security
Council. (Since the first of the year,
Mexico, the Netherlands and Egypt
have been succeeded in the Council
and the commission by Belgium,
Colombia and Syria.)
AS to the primary principles we
have sought to enact, they are fa-
miliar to you, since they are def
nitely part of your instructions to us.
I can find no better way of sum-
mariZing the work of the commits
sion than to invite your attention
to the findings and recommends
tions found from pages 1S to 27
of the commission report already
referred to.
They include, among others, these
most important elements:
A. The creating of a compre-
hensive international system of con-
troll and inspection, under the di-
rection of an agency within the
framework of the United Nations,
by means of an enforceable treaty,
subject, of course, to ratification by
our Senate:
B. That the control should start
with the production of uranium and
thorium when they are severed from
the ground and extend through the
production of fashionable material,
using safeguards at each step, in
cluding accounting, inspection, SUI
pervision, management and licens-
ing, as may be appropriate;
C. That the powers of the agency
should be commensurate with its
responsibility, with no government
possessing the right of veto over
the day-to-day operations of the
agency;
D. That the agency should have
unimpeded right of ingress, egress,
and access for the performance of
its inspections and other duties;
E. Prohibiting the manufacture,
possession and use of atomic weap-
ons by all nations and providing for
the disposal of existing stocks of
atomic weapons and fashionable
materials;
F. Specifying acts constituting
international crimes, and establish
ing adequate measures of enforce
ment and punishment, subject to
the condition that there shall be
no legal right, by veto or otherwise,
whereby a wilful violator shall be
protected from the consequences of
violating the treaty.
recommendations Indivisible.
The international control agency
will require broad powers commen-
surate with its great responsibilities,
so that it may possess the requisite
to adapt safeguards to a
rapidly developing technology. The
safeguards that have been discussed
are meant only to be indicative of
the types of safeguards that must