Evening star., 1948-03-29
l,our naiions demand
u. n. Halt Talks on
Soviet A-Bomb Ban
sy tho Assoeia.ed Pres.

LAKE SUCCESS, Mar. 10
Britain, China, France and Can
ada demanded today that atomic
delegates break OF talks on Rus
sia's scheme to prohibit atomic
bombs.
The four Nations declared q mere
convention banning bombs would,
without world controls, help an
aggressor Nation gain overwhelming
military supremacy and would mis-
lead public opinion into feeling
of false security. They denounced
the whole of Russia's atomic pro-
posals as inadequate and unreal
istic.
The four countries put resolution
before the Working Committee of
the United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission calling for rejection of
the Russian proposal as they stand
now. They asked the committee to
declare there is no purpose in dis
cussing them further.
United States Delegate Frederick
Osborne Immediately gave his sup
port to the four-power proposal.
Belgium, Colombia and Argentina
aBo backed the resolution. This
gave 1t more than the seven votes
necessary for approval.
Would Study New Proposals.
Delegates from the four countries
said the resolution does not consti-
tllte a final and formal break with
Russia on the whole atomic control
problem. They said they are ready
to- discuss new Soviet proposals but
they do not want to go over the
same ground again and again.
The United States did not join in
the statement of the four countries
but informed sources predicted the
United States would support it.
Authoritative sources said the four
nations were laying the groundwork
for a full debate on atomic energy
iTthe 1948 United Nations Assembly
meeting in Paris this fall. 'These
sources added that the four nations
feel it is time for the Assembly
to. attempt to end the deadlock by
its moral persuasion.
Richard Miles of Britain, who re-
Gently told the Soviet Ukrainian
delegate 1t was waste of time to
try to talk to the British people
over the heads of the British dele
CATION here, was chosen to present
the statement of the four countries
and the resolution.
Mr.. Miles declared that Andrei A.
Gromyko's demand on June 10, 1916,
for an immediate treaty outlawing
atomic bombs would, without ade-
ouate controls, give IAN aggressor
nation the opportunity to acquire an
Overwhelming military supremacy.
1T would mislead public opinion,
he continued
THE world is aware" Mr.. Miles
said, "of the tragic history of past
conventions 'outlawing' various
weapons or forms of warfare. None
ofsthese conventions, eliminating in
the Kellogg BRAND pact of 1928 out
lawing war itself, contained any pro-
visions for their own enforcement,
and consequently remain pious ex-
pressions of hope and no more.
Indeed, such prohibitory agree
ments, instead of strengthening
peace. actually gave rise to false
security and so betrayed the hopes
that they expressed"
Majority Plan Favored.
Some delegates hage declared
they want to go ahead on an atomic
control plan favored by the ma
jority. e s.f.s. (
This would follow roughly the
United States plan first presented
by Bernard NJ Baruch on June IA,
1916. Mr.. Baruch said the United
States would dispose of its existing
atomic bombs and not make more
when an effective control system
was set up by the world He said
the veto in the Security Council
must not apply to atomic violations
Mr.. Gromyko countered with a
plan for an immediate treaty out
lawing the bomb. He said controls
could be worked out later. On June
II, 1947. he suggested an inter-
national control commission but
members of the majority attacked
1t as inadequate.
Thirteen of the 16 other nations
which have sat on the Atomic Com
mission since June, 1916, have sup
ported the United States. Only
Russia Poland and the Soviet
Ukraine have been in opposition.