Evening star., 1948-10-03
Reds Want Ban
Of Bombs, Control
Over Energy
by the Associated Press

PARIS, Oct. 2.-Russia changed
signals Unexpectedly today and
demanded the United Nations
ban the atomic bomb and set up
atomic energy controls at the
same time.
The Soviet Union still insisted
however, upon veto oyer the control
machinery.
Western power delegates saw nc
compromise in the surprise move mol
any break in the deadlock over
atomic energy control. They sale
they were going straight ahead with
plans to demand vote of conf
dence in their stand from the U. N
General Assembly.
Warren r. Austin, United States
delegate, told newsmen the Soviet
proposal was typically "Oriental
maneuver." He said the American
delegation saw no assurance Russia
is ready to accept the central plan
of the U. N. Atomic Energy Com
mission, "the only effective system
which would insure the harnessine
of atomic energy in the service OF
mankind"
Vishinsky Offers Resolution.
Andrei Vishinsky. Soviet deputy
foreign minister, put the Soviet reso-
luton before the 58-nation Political
Committee of the Assembly at the
end of his second blast in two days
at the Western powers.
Once more Mr.. VishinSky hit at
President Truman. Gov. Thomas E
Dewey, and David E. Lilienthal
chairman Of the United States
Atomic Energy Commission.
This came when he charged
former Premier Paul Ramadier of
France with attempting to justify
course "expounded by his Ameri-
can inspirers, such as Messrs.
Dewey, Truman, Lilienthal and
others"
Mr. Vishinsky's resolution called
on the Assembly to recommend to
the Security Council and to the
Atomic Energy Commission that
they continue their work toward
finding an atomic solution.
1t called for the Council and the
commission to draw up one treaty
banning atomic weapons and an
other on the establishment of ef-
fective international control over
atomic energy.
Change Since Day Before.
These treaties, the resolution
specified, should be drawn up with
a view that both are to be signed
and put into force simultaneously.
The abruptness of the Soviet
shift was dramatized by the fact
that only yesterday Mr.. Vishinsky
voiced fiat opposition to interna-
tional control of production OF
atomic raw materials, as proposed
by the United States and supported
by all save the Soviet bloc.
The Soviet resolution, however,
would put the Assembly on record
as saying that the work of the Sc
curity Council and the Atomic
Energy Control Commission so far
had not yielded positive results.
This is directly counter to the
proposal by Gen. A. G. L. McNaugh-
ton of Canada for the Assembly to
approve majority reports of the
commission.
The atomic issue now stands this
way:
/. Russia calls for simultaneous
conventions on banning the atomic
bomb and controlling atomic energy
But Russia has not changed her
stand for putting controls into ef-
feet all along the line at the same
time. She has not agreed to waive
the veto on atomic violation and has
not accepted the majority report
approved by the atomic commission.
2. The Western powers want the
ban. on the bomb written into the
big treaty which sets up controls.
They want no veto on atomic viola
tions. They want controls to be put
into effect by stages-the control
organ would first make perfect its
control on raw materials and on
each separate part Of atomic pro-
duction-until 1t reaches the end OF
(See II. N Page A-4D