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Soviet Proposal
Is Defeated by
Political Unit
By the Assoeioisd Press


PARIS, Oct. 20.-The United
Nations voted today to turn the
atomic energy dispute over to
the Big Five and Canada with
instructions to try for agree
ment on basic principles.
The 58-nation Political Com
mittee rejected a Soviet proposal
which would have outlawed the
atom bomb simultaneously with
setting up of an atomic energy
control organization.
The committee also rejected an
Inoian proposal to send the U. N.
Atomic Commission back to work
on a treaty for controls on the
basis of findings approved by the
majority but rejected by Russia.
The resolution adopted approved
the majority report of the U. N.
Atomic Energy Commission based
on United States control proposals.
1t calls for the nations to sign a
treaty setting up an international
control agency with full powers to
punish violators of atomic control,
full powers of inspection and full
powers over the development of
atomic energy from the time the
raw materials leave the ground to
the final stages.
Floor Fight Promised.
The vote on the Soviet proposal
was 80 to 6 with seven abstentions.
Only the six Soviet-bloc nations
voted for it.
Soviet Delegate Jacob A. Malik
told newsmen after the meeting that
his delegation would carry the fight
to the floor of the General Assem-
bly,. The Russians can do this by
presenting their proposal as a reso-
luton when the atomic energy
question is being discussed:
The vote to turn back the dispute
to the United States, Russia,
Britain, France, China and Canada
was taken on Canadian resolution.
The roll call vote was Al to 8, with
10 delegations abstaining and one
absent.
The five Soviet bloc states also
voted with Russia against the Ca
madam proposal.
Approval Assured.
On the basis of this vote, the
Canadian proposal is assured OF
easily winning the necessary two
thirds majority approval in the
full General Assembly, all OF whose
nations are represented in the
Political Committee.
The action climaxed long East
West debate.
The Russian proposal to outlaw
the bomb had been foredoomed to
failure. Western delegates had de-
nounced it.
Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslo-
vakia, White Russia and the Soviet
Ukraine voted with the Russians
for the Soviet proposal.
Usual Lineup Followed.
This has been the usual lineup in
crucial Assembly votes in the past
against big majorities, cut dow =.
only by abstensions and absences.
When Soviet Deputy Foreign
Minister Vishinsky first placed his
proposal to outlaw the bomb before
the U. N. early in this Assembly ses-
sion, the West described it as q
simple maneuver."
The Canadian proposal voted by
the committee requested the Big
Five and Canada to consult In order
to determine If there exists a basis
for agreement on international con-
troll of atomic energy"
It asked the commission to &c
back to work ION such subjects re-
manning In the program Of work as
it considers practicable and useful
Voted Paragraph at Time.
The resolution was voted para
graph by paragraph and then adopt
ed as a whole.
The states which abstained on the
final ballot were Afghanistan, Ar
gentina, Ecuador, Ell Salvador, India
Saudi Arabia, Syria, South Africa
Venezuela and the Yemen. Guate.
mala was absent.
Voting for the Canadian proposal
on the roll call were Australia, Bel
GUM, Bolivia, Brazil. Burma, Can
ada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, France
Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland
Iran, Iraq. Lebanon, Liberia, Luxem-
bourg, Mexico. the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Nicaragua. Norway, PAX
istan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru
Philippines, Siam, Sweden, Turkey
the United Kingdom, the United
States and Uruguay.
The vote came as the Western