Evening star., 1951-11-19
Romonio Is Accused Of Curling Free
Press in U. S. Affidovits. Pose Az

komonio IS Accused or Surbne free
Press in U. S. Affidovits. Pose Az
as Mr.. Acheson urged all coun-
tries not Ito turn aside into the
noisesome alleys of propaganda. A"
Mr.. Acheson was asking the
U. N. in its 60-nation Political
Committee. to adopt program
which would set up a 12-nation
disarmament commission to start
the ball rolling in step step
supervised arms reduction as proL
posed by the United States, France
and Britain.
Presents Plan Personally.
Mr.. Acheson chose to present
the plan to the committee person.
ally. 1t was his first appearance
in person before a U. N. committee
to introduce and explain reso-
luton on any subject.
The commission. made up of the
members of the U. N. Security
Council plus Canada, would lay the
groundwork for world arms re-
duction conference to which such
non-U. N. nations as Red China
would be invited.
The resolution which Mr. Ache
son introduced for the Western Big
Three calls for strictly controlled,
gradual disarmament and a census
of all weapons, including the
atomic.
The permanent members Of the
Security Council. Britain. Ma
tionalist China, France. Russia
and the United States. would have
to agree on such a commission S
decisions, since each of the five
would have veto power in the
Council. The commission would
draw up for the world conference
treaties of regulation, limitation
and balanced reduction of all
armed forces and all ornaments.
Great Opportunity Seen.
eve can seize this great op-
portunity for peace" Mr.. Ache
son said in a conciliatory speech
which was greeted with great ap-
plause from the committee, "or
we can fritter it away"
The Secretary of State made no
direct mention of the Soviet
Union, whose acceptance would be
necessary to start the plan rolling.
There is no magic" in the
Vests proposals, Mr.. Acheson
said. but he insisted the plan
could be turning point in world
history. He told delegates they
were dealing with the most i'm
portant problem any group of
statesmen have ever dealt with
the question of national survival"
In Political Committee No. 2.
meanwhile, Soviet Delegate Jacob
A. Malik tilted bitterly with Selim
Sarper of Turkey. Political Com
mittee No. 2 helps the first COM
mittee handle the heavy load Of
political problems before the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Vests Proposals Studied.
Mr.. Sarper was elected by ac-
clamation chairman of Political
Committee No. 2, and Sven Graf
strom of Sweden defeated Ukrai-
nian Delegate L. T. Palamartchouk
for vice chairman.
Another clash arose when the
committee voted, 80 to 16, to put
the matter of threats to Greece's
security first on the committees S
agenda; Yugoslav complaints
against the Cominform, second
and investigation into conditions
for an election in Germany, third.
The first Political Committee
abandoned it's plans for an after
noon session so that its members
could have time to study Mr.
Acheson's speech before going on
with the debate on the Vests
arms proposals.
Would Merge Duties.
Russia on Friday proposed that
similar 12-nation commission
start work at once on the inspec-
ton and control of all weapons
1t called for the commission to
report to the Security Council by
February /, 1952-presumably
within the life of the current as
sembly.
The Western plan set no date
for the calling of the disarmament
conference. leaving that to the
preparatory commission. Russia
previously had proposed such q
conference be held before June l
1852.