Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-26
Mr.. Dulles on the Atom

to the United Nations General Assembly,
has left no room for doubt that President
Eisenhower's "atoms-for- peace" plan still Is
very much alive and that every effort is
going to be nade-despite Soviet negativism
to translate it into working reality for
the good of all mankind.
To that end, in concert with several
like-minded nations, the United States has
already set in motion negotiations to estab
lish special new international agency,
with the hope that the agencys work will
start "as early as next year." And the prime
objective of that work, of course, will be- to
pool and utilize fashionable materials for
the generation Of industrial power and for
other enterprises designed to make the atom
a servant and benefactor capable Of doing
revolutionary things in terms Of improving
the health and promoting the social and
economic progress of peoples everywhere.
Moreover, in submitting the project to
the Assembly as an urgent and important"
agenda item, Mr.. Dulles has set forth
specific three point supporting program
The program-which serves as a measure of
our country's resolve to launch the Presi-
dents plan as quickly as possible-calls for
the following: Cd An international Scien-
tific conference, to be held under U. N.
auspices next spring, 'to consider this whole
vast subject; (2) establishment in the
United States, in early 1855, of "a reactor
training school where students from abroad
may learn the working principles" of the
peacetime uses of nuclear power; and 90
issuance of an Invitation to a substantial
number of overseas medical and surgical
experts to participate in the work of our
cancer hospitals in which atomic techniques
are among the most hopeful approaches to
controlling this menace to mankind"
AS Mr.. Dulles has said, the men of the
Kremlin have had nothing to offer but a.
thumbs down attitude ever since the Presi-
dent first presented his plan to the u. N.
last December. True, after five months of
silence, they have now sent note express
ing their willingness to talk further about
the subject. But the timing of this note
delivered just prior to the Secretary's
address and indicating no retreat from the
past Soviet refusal to o-operate-smacks
of mere propaganda maneuver. Certainly,
although Andrei Vishinsky's latest remarks
in the Assembly suggest the possibility Of
eventual Russian agreement with the idea,
there Is as yet no evidence that the Malen-
kov regime has experienced change Of
heart that would make it sincere partici-
pant in the project-a project that has as
one of its important incidental detectives
the creation Of international trust of a sort
that could lead to real control of A-weapons
and the hydrogen bomb.
With such considerations as these in
mind, Mr.. Dulles has made clear to the
Assembly that our Government, while re-
naming ready to negotiate on the matter
with the Kremlin, is determined that the
Presidents plan "shall not languish until it
dies" Accordingly instead of letting Soviet
negativism hold up everything, the United
States intends to press forward with the
project "in close partnership with all those
nations that are ready to join with us in
the effort to make the atom "a tool OF
humanitarianism and craftsmanship and
not merely a fearsome addition to the
arsenal of war"
This is the only policy to be followed in
existing circumstances. For the atoms
for-peace" enterprise-even though it can
not perform overnight miracles-is full OF
such a bright long range promise for all
nations that everything possible should be
done to get it rolling FAST with or without
the Russians. To let them torpedo the idea
would be defeatism of the worst kind.