Evening star., 1948-10-18
j. ). Asks u. n.
To Turn Over
Atomic Issue
Calls for Direct TuIks
Among Five Major
Powers and Canada
BY the Associoted Press

PARIS, Oct. 18.-The United
States demanded today that. the
United Nations turn the dead
locked atomic energy problem
over to the five great powers and
Canada for direct negotiations.
Chief American Delegate Warren
R. Austin told the 58-nation Po-
litical Committee the United Ma
tions could go no further in its ef-
tbrts to control the atom until the
Soviet Union agreed to participate
in the world community on a Coop
erative basis"
The Berlin dispute comes up to-
morrow in the Security Council. A
new compromise plan which would
take the issue out of the U. N is
reported under consideration by the
six neutrals of the council.
Red Secrecy Assailed.
Mr.. Austin, commenting on a re-
port drawn up by an atomic energy
subcommittee, declared:
Communist states desire to live
in a secret world of their own, be-
hind which, for all we know, they
may arm and prepare their people
for war. We do not desire to live
in such world.
That is the impasse in which
the United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission finds itself. This is an
impaSse which can not be overcome
by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Mr.. Austin said the problem must
be turned over to the United States.
Russia, Britain, France, China and
Canada for negotiations:
An 11-nation atomic commission
suspended work last May in a dead
lock over control plans. Mr.. Austin
was backing a Canadian proposal,
approved by a subcommittee, call
ing for turning the whole control
problem back to the six original
atomic control commission sponsors
to decide whether there is any basis
upon which to resume efforts to
try for control.
Malik Answers Charge.
ut is because we so earnestly
seek agreement, because we still
hope for ultimate agreement, how
ever dim the present prospects. that
we strongly urge this course" Mr..
Austin said.
Russia's Jacob A. Malik retorted
that mo fairy tales about alleged
closed doors and iron curtains can
show that the Soviet proposal is in
acceptable" He said Mr.. Austin,
by conjuring up fairy tales. revealed
"the weakness of his position" and
showed that the United States did
not want to reach agreement on
atomic controls.
Mr.. Malik said the Russians had
made a concession by agreeing to
ban atom bombs and establish con-
trolls, but agreement was made i'm
possible because "the Anglo-Amer-
ican majority" had changed its po-
sition to demand forma ton of a
control body before banning the
bomb.
Mr.. Austin said Russia's new pro-
posal to outlaw atomic weapons
was a maneuver which was mac
ceptable to sincere men," He re-
peated his rejection of the propo-
sal, which would set up an atomic
control organization simultaneously
with the ban.
"This So-called concession pro-
posed by the Soviet Union is not
a concession" he said. 1T is SIM
ply maneuver designed to provide
for the destruction of atomic weap-
ons in one country beforehand
probably long while before-there
had been any determination of
whether or not atomic weapons ex-
listed in another country"
Setback Is Charged.
y Mr.. Austin said Russia's proposal
would set the whole problem back to
where it was at the start.
I'VE have been through this de-
bate over and over again in the
Atomic Energy Commission" he
said. It would not be possible nor
reasonable to go back and start
this debate all over again.
He added that "in an atmosphere
of cooperation on the basic ele-
ments of control, the matter of the
veto could probably be worked out
quite easily. Further elaboration of
the veto matter by the majority,
without Soviet agreement and pre-
sented apart from consideration of
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