Evening star., 1950-03-01
McMahon Calls for Atom Farley
In Moscow After Atlantic Nations
Formulate Concrete Peace Plans
Senator Warns
OfH-Bomb War:
Asks U. N. Action
By Cecil HoIIond

By Cecil HoIIond
Senator Mcmahon, Democrat,
of Connecticut, today proposed
conference of Atlantic Pact ma
tons on a new approach to atomic
peace.
He said in a Senate speech that
such a conference would lay the
ground work for a new approach
to Russia on outlawing the atomic
and hydrogen bombs by creating
"a climate of peace"
The Senator, chairman of the
Joint Congressional committee on
atomic energy, coupled his pro-
posal with grim warnings of the
horror of a hydrogen war and
said:
"If we do not act, the atom
will"
The Senator said the pact ma
tions should formulate con-
crete peace program"
Moscow Meeting Proposed.
This program, he added, should
be presented TO Russia through
the United Nations-at a meet
ing. if it could be arranged, of
the U. N. General Assembly in
Moscow.
Senator Mcmahon said public
hearings on civilian defense-pre-
viously scheduled for next week
will be delayed while the COM
mittees holds closed hearings to
review proposals for control of
hydrogen weapons.
Review May Be Needed.
In his speech, the Senator said
review of the existing plan pend
ing in the United Nations may be
necessary. But he emphasized
that he would retain the essential
features of the u. N. plan provid-
ing for "rascal-proof safeguard"
in the way of inspections.
Pointing out that the United
States conferred with her allies
in time of war, Senator Mcmahon
said: %
'-"TodaE our peril surpasses any
we have ever known in war. The
prospect of an mic-hydrogen
blitz spells horror in letters so
huge that even the bloody attacks
of Hitler and TOTO seem almost
petty by comparison. Yet in this,
our greatest emergency. we have
adopted no measures remotely
equal in scope and daring to those
used for the lesser emergency of
the last war"
Would Not Be Appeasers.
Senator Mcmahon suggested
that the Atlantic Council, created
by the Atlantic pact, review the
whole problem of international
control of atomic energy, forlnu-
late its program and then "ap-
proach the Kremlin"
Thus equipped" he added, I'VE
will not go as appeasers. We will
go with the full wisdom of a bill
lion free people. We will go with
strength such as the Kremlin has
never before confronted"
He emphasized that control of
atomic energy is a matter for all
nations to consider.
l do not find congenial," Sen
ator Mcmahon said, "the logic
that because only Russia and
America possess atomic bombs
they alone should sit down to dis
cuss fresh start toward control"
U. S. Effort Is Stressed.
The Senator noted that the
United States has been trying for
four years to obtain agreement
through the United Nations for
control of atomic weapons-an
agreement that Russia has blocked.
Our efforts" he said, have
not only failed-they have signally
failed. Yet the price of our ulti-
mate failure is death. The specter
of Hiroshima multiplied a thou
sand times tells us that we have
no choice but to try again."
With these words the Senator
expressed his disagreement with
President Truman and Secretary
of State Acheson who have ruled
out any new approach to Russia
at this time on control of atomic
weapons.
Drawing Near "New Crisis"
Senator Mcmahon said the
crisis of the hydrogen bomb has
been imposed on the atomic prob
lem and added:
With the passing of each day.
each week and each month more
fashionable material for atomic
bombs comes into existence.
We draw nearer to the point in
time when ten hydrogen bombs or
90 or even more will be available
and poised on both sides of the
Iron Curtain"
This, he added, is "the new
crisis"
Emphasizing the need for ac-
tion, Senator Mcmahon said:
IF we do not act, we may be
profaned forever by the inheritors
of a ravaged planet"
1t was the second time in recent
weeks that Senator Mcmahon had
proposed some new approach for
control of atomic weapons. In
an earlier speech he had suggested
that the United States take the
lead in "a crusade for peace" with
a $50 billion global Marshall plan
In return for world disarmament.