Evening star., 1949-09-29
5 West Powers Start
New Atomic ParIeys
With Russians Today
BY the Assoeiofed Press

Atomic control talks are being re-
sumed in secret today among
Russia and five Western powers
In the United Nations.
The atmosphere was not full of
hope for breaking the long East
West deadlock.
The delegates meet in closed
session at 3 pm, less than a week
after President Truman an
nounced there was evidence of an
atomic blast in the Soviet Union
and "a hours after Russia again
told the United Nations the United
States has no monopoly on atomic
bombs.
One delegate closely connected
with the talks said he did not
expect new Russian proposals at
the meeting but it certainly would
be an interesting occasion.
The conferees are the United
States, Russia, China, Britain,
France and Canada. Canada is
included with the Big Five be-
cause of Canadian contributions
to development of the atomic
bomb.
Vishinsky Stirs Interest.
These six countries sponsored
creation of the U. N. Atomic En-
ergy Commission in 1946 and the
problem finally has made the
circuit through the General As
sembly. the commission and now
back to the sponsoring powers.
Soviet Foreign Minister Visllin-
sky made an apparently off-hand
remark in the Assembly's Steering
Committee yesterday that aroused
new interest. That was his state
ment saying left-handedly that
Russia has the A-bomb now.
There are two plans before the
sponsoring powers.
One proposal, backed by the
West and rejected by the Rus
slams, was approved by the Assem-
bly, in Paris last November 4 by a
vote of 40 to 6. This calls for an
international control authority
: with full power over atomic en-
sergy from the mine to the finished
form. It calls for no veto on
punishments of the atomic code,
and it provides a system of full
inspection and international con-
troll. The United States agreed to
dispose of it's bombs and stop
making new ones when it was sat
isf1ed effective controls were work.
ing.
The Russians have insisted on
the veto and have charged any
inspection would be spying expe-
dition for the general stats of the
Western powers.
The Russians have proposed
two treaties. One would ban the
atomic bomb Immediately. The
sother would set up system of
controls under an organization
responsible to the Security coin-
Gil. The Russians have a veto in
the Security Council and the West
has turned down that idea. Rus
sia also called for inspection to
determine whether the ! atomic
code is being obeyed but has not
given the West a satisfactory
answer as to how far such In.
spection should go. '...szs ss,,... :,
The issue has stood there since
June, 1916. The sponsoring powers
are trying to see it there is any
chance for agreement. Experts
here expect the talks to go along
for months but they say the dele
gates will have to make a report
soon to the Assembly in view Of
the high Importance the atom
has assumed since it was disclosed
the Russians have atomic weap-
yonS.
Assembly President Carlos p.
Romulo has demanded that the
delegates face up to the problem
now and solve it.
Dutch Paper Reports BIost
sRozed Soviet Atomic City
AMSTERDAM, Sept. 20 R.-
The Amsterdam newspaper De
eTid reported yesterday that all
of Russia's atomic scientists and
all her atomic knowledge were
wiped out when a Soviet Atomic
City" blew up last spring.
The newspaper gave no source
for it's information. It did not
name the city. Said its special
correspondent:
"The explosion created violence
suggesting an earthquake. Atmos-