The Key West citizen., 1954-11-08
By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER

UNIFIED NAIIUNS, NY. f -
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. told the
IN. last week this country is
ready to start talks with other
countries on bilateral agreements
to furnish atomic materials for re-
search reactors overseas as part
of a program to share atomic
know-how for peace.
The chief American delegate to
the UN. announced to the General
ASSembly'S 60-nation Political COM
mittee that this would be gigantic
forward step for 1855 in President
EiSenhower's plans for an interna-
tional pool of atomic energy for
peaceful purposes.
Outlining program of action
for the next year even before a
proposed international agency is
created to oversee the atoms for
peace program Lodge said the
United States is ready to train per
sons to operate nuclear reactors,
to offer courses in nuelear safety,
and to invite $50 foreign cancer
experts TO visit American cancer
research facilities and swap views
with US. doctors.
Lodge also announced the United
States is ready To give to the prin-
cipal technical libraries of cooper
ating nations 10 libraries of data
on nuclear energy plus sets #
cards abstracting $4,000 scientific
and technical books and reports
published in all countries.
AS Lodge spoke there was no
word from Moscow whether the
Russians had changed their minds
and decided to go along with the
Eisenhower proposals. With nego-
tiations still under way between
Washington and Moscow, Lodge
made clear that the door is still
open to the Russians to join the
Presidents program.
He said the United States has
been talking with Britain. France,
Canada, Australia, Belgium, South
Africa and Portugal on the pro.
gram. The United States has said
it will 60 ahead with the program
whether the Russians join or not.
Lodge suggested some details of
the work TO be done by the inter-
national atomic agency favored by
the United States. He also said the
United States and other countries
will sponsor a resolution calling
for the UN. to convene an inter
national scientific conference next
year to discuss many aspects of the
atomic pool plan.
The international agency could
be set up, he explained, on a basis
similar to the specialized agencies
of the U.N. These agencies are
related to the U.N. in common
purposes but operate under their
own budgets and constitution. The
Americans so far have shown a
determination to keep the Presi-
dents program clear of close en-
tangling ties with the U.N.
Lodge said small research reac-
tors, which can be built in a years
time for well under $500, 600, would
help in the practical application of
atomic research to medicine, farm
ing and industry.
Looking to the immediate future.
He declared:
1--WE are prepared to start discus
sion with other countries for the
conclusion of bilateral agreements
which will make it possible for US,
under our laws, to furnish teehHi-
cal information, technical assist
ance, and necessary amounts Of
fashionable materials for the con
struction and operation of research
reactorS to be located abroad"
He said that, pending the crea-
ton of the proposed international
agency, the United States is pre-
pared in 1885 to:
/. Establish a reactor training
school early in the year and invite
80 to so scientists and engineers
from overseas to study practical
reactor engineering so they may
become competent operators Of
such installations.