Evening star., 1951-11-25
Vishinsky Submits
Dozen Amendments
To Arms Proposal
By the Associated Press

PARIS, Nov. "a. - Andrei Y.
Vishinsky rejected the Western
Big Three disarmament plan TO-
day and submitted a dozen
amendments intended to substi-
tute Moscow's brand of arms
limitation, including an i'm
mediate ban on the atomic bomb.
For an hour and Al minutes. the
Soviet foreign minister lanbasted
the formula sponsored by the
United States, Britain and France
in a speech before the 60-member
United Nations Political Commit
tee.
He complained the Western
plan did not go far enough toward
reducing the dangers of war. He
said it cannot. in the present
FORM, serve its announced pur-
pose" Then he presented his
amendments. by which the plan
would be rewritten almost COM
pletely to conform to Soviet ideas.
Jessup Is Disappointed.
Ambassador Philip c. Jessup,
United States delegate. who re-
placed Secretary of State Dean
Acheson in the disarmament de-
bate, expressed disappointment
that Mf. Vishinsky still used in
vective instead of practical words.
DR.. Jessup and spokeSmen for
Britain and France indicated they
will go ahead with work on the
plan in the hope some progress
toward genuine system of disarm-
ament is still possible.
A British spokesman said his
delegation felt Mr.. Vishinsky, byI
his amendments, was trying toI
inject into the three-power reso-
luton the Soviet disarmament
program made up of all the old
Russian themes. A French spokes-
man expressed the view Mr.. Vi
shlnsky had left the door open toI
negotiation.
The net effect of the speech.
eagerly awaited all week, was that
the Russians had reiterated their
opposition to the Western propo-
sails and had not moved one inch
toward accepting them, but had
shown they were willing to keep
talking.
Would Change Most of Plan.
Mr.. ViShinsky's amendments
would wipe out or radically change
every part of the Western plan ex-
cept the first and last paragraphs.
The first states the aim of the
U. N. Assembly is to lift from the
peoples of the world the burden
of increasing ornaments and the
fear of war. The last directs the
U. N. secretary general to furnish
a staff for a disaunament COM
mission.
Mr.. Vishinsky's plan, contain
ing not one new major element,
calls for an unconditional ban now
on atomic weapons, the establish
ment under the, Security Council
of a strict international control
organ to carry out the reduction of
ornaments and enforcement Of
regulations to that effect, and TO.
a cut by one-third in the armed
forces of the United States, France.
Britain, China and the Soviet
Union within one year after the
Assembly accepts those provisions.
Mr.. Vishinsky also would have
the Assembly direct the Commits
sion on Atomic Energy and Con-
ventional Arnaments. to be Gre
ated by merger of the old Atomic
Energy Commission and the U. N.
Commission on Conventional Ar
maments, to draw up convention
carrying out the Assembly decis-
ions. This would be submitted to
the Security Council by February
/, 1852.
Finally, all countries, in or out
Of the U. N. would be required to
submit within one month after
acceptance by the General As
sembly of the provisions for pro-
hibition of atomic weapons and
reduction of ornaments, complete
information on the state of their
armed forces and ornaments, in
cluding atomic weapons.
This would mean, in the opinion
of some delegates. that the United
States would have to open the
secrets of its whole atomic pro-
gram and atomic stockpile before
fool-proof conditions for checks
and guarantees were in effect