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ternational control of atomic
energy to insure its use for peace
full purposes only. This is a fun
damental objective to which this
Government and the vast major
ity of the United Nations have
committed their best efforts.
Agreement on this goal would
make the facilities of our atomic
energy enterprise fully available
for peaceful purposes. Until this
objective is achieved. however, we
must strengthen our own defenses
by providing the necessary atomic
energy production capacity"
Planned Before Korean War.
The supplemental appropriation
asked today would bolster an out
lay of $647, ,820,000 in cash and
$500, $50, 900 in contract authority.
now awaiting Senate approval
after House passage.
The sum already approved is
SOL $50, 900 under the Atomic En-
ergy Commissions originally re-
quested budget.
The proposal to expand atomic
production repeatedly was drafted
before the United States inter-
vened in the Korean war, but was
held up by the State Department
''for physiological reasons"
1.-The department apparently
did not want to throw a war
scare into the rest of the world
by having the request come at
the time we were going into
Korea" a House spokesman said.
Actually it had no connection,
at least directly, with the Korean
situation"
Atomic Project Stressed.
The administration request for
an additional $3.50 million re-
portedly was rewritten after de-
fense leaders objected to it's origi-
nal wording. They were said then
to have protested that too much
emphasis was placed on the hy-
drogen bomb.
Since it is generally recognized
that it would take about two years
to get the H-bomb in production. !"
a House informant said, "the mill
tary presumably did not think it
wise to tie up scientific brains and
productive capacity on such
project at this time.
Instead, they wanted the en-
phasis to be put on production of
atomic bombs. They feel that two
years is too long a time to gamble
with, and that the time can be
used more advantageously in max
ing atomic bombs"
New Economies in Operation.
In the meantime the Commerce
Department took over distribution
of non-secret technical reports
dealing with atomic energy, in a
move designed to give American
business firms easier access to this
material.
The Acc made a report or
progress in weapons production
to a closed-door meeting of a
Senate Appropriations subcom-
mittee in March. Senator O'Ma-
honey. Democrat, of Wyoming
committee head, made the state
ment public.
The commission reported that
a dispersal and expansion of plant
capacity for the manufacture of
atomic weapon components has
been completed.
1t said also the economy which
will result from new chemical
separation plants at Hanford,
Wash, is an important element in
the production outlook.
Belgian Congo Main Source.
Senator Mcmahon. Democrat, of
Connecticut, chairman of the Joint
Congressional Atomic Committee,
told the appropriations subcom-
mittee that the administrations S
budget for the commission during
the fiscal year which started July
was 500 million less than last
year.
Senator Mcmahon asked the
subcommittee to keep in mind,
when appraising the new budget,
that "this is the year after the
Soviet (atomic) explosion, the year
OF the hydrogen bomb decision
the year when the highest obtain
able urgency is needed"
Nevertheless, the Senate group
approved the reduction by the
House of S61 Q90 0fln