Evening star., 1953-12-08
Iron Curtain Nations
Delegates Awaiting
Presidents sU. n. Talk
By the Asseeiated Pres.

BY the Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y, Dec.
S.-United Nations delegates
from both sides of the Iron Cur
tain waited today for President
Eisenhower's appeal to the Cen
eral Assembly for peace in an
atom-periled world. One high
diplomatic source said the ad-
dress would be a sensation"
aimed at breaking the seven
year-old East-West deadlock
over atomic energy control.
Most delegates speculated Gen.
Eisenhower would aim his plea
directly at Russia. Most voiced
hope that the address, coming as
the assembly prepared to recess
its eighth session. would pave the
way for high-level big power
talks designed to ease world ten
sions.
The 60-nation Assembly hall
was prepared for a packed audi
ence of foreign diplomats, news
men and tourists.
Visit to Be Brief.
Gen. Eisenhower'S U. N. visit
was planned to last only about
an hour and a half.
Flying in from Bermuda, he
was due at LaGuardia Field at
sos pm. and 40 minutes later
at u. N. headquarters to be greet
ed by Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, who invited him
to make the address.
The President was scheduled
to make his speech at about 4
pm, after a brief introduction
by Mrs. Vijaya LakShmi Pandit,
president of the Eighth Assembly.
Mr.. HammarSkjold arranged a
short reception for Gen. EiSen-
hover at 4:45 pm. A half hour
later the presidential party was
slated to whisk back to La
Guardia and on to Washington.
World to Hear Speech.
The major United States radio
and television networks will
carry the speech. The Voice
Of America planned to beam the
Presidents voice throughout the
world as he spoke, and to trans
late his words for the nations on
both sides of the Iron Curtain
including the Soviet Union.
Television films of the Presi-
dents appearance will be flown
to Is countries in Western Eu-
rope, Latin America and the
Far East.
Gen. Eisenhower'S address
comes shortly after the Assembly
urged its disarmament commits
sion to make another effort to
solve the arms issue and called
for big-power talks to break the
East-West deadlock. 1t was eX-
pected to suggest a fresh ap-
proach to the problem of inter-
national atomic energy control.
May End Baruch Plan.
Observers Speculated it might
spell an end to the Baruch plan.
proposed to the U. N. seven years
ago by Gen. EiSenhower's old
friend, Bernard Baruch. This
plan called for control-by stages
of atomic energy production
throughout the world leading
eventually to internationl own
ership of all atom plants.
In their disarmament resolu-
ton last month the Western Big
Three dropped any mention of
the Baruch plan which the Rus
sions have denounced as a plot
by the Western imperialists to
grab the Soviet plants.
Western delegates have felt
for some time that the Baruch
plan went out of date with the
birth of the hydrogen bomb.
Top Reds to Attend.
RusSia's Andrei Vishinsky and
other top members of the U. MS
Soviet bloc were due to hear
Gen. Eisenhower's speech, which
one diplomatic source predicted
would paint the frankeSt picture
yet by an American leader of
the horror the world faces if an
atom war breaks loose.
The general feeling here was
that Gen. Eisenhower'S speech
would be directed chiefly at So
Wet Russia, which has some de-
cided views of its own on dis
armament and atomic energy
control.
He was expected to appeal to
Russia to be reasonable and
agree to cooperate in prevent
ing atomic war.