Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-14
Foreign Ministers Talk
On Atom T ests Issue

GENEVA. May II Cap -
United States. Britain and
Soviet foreign ministers talked
today about ways 20 speed up
Ia ban on nuclear weapons
tests. under discussion here for
six months.
Taking time out from the
problems OF Berlin and Ger
many. they considered the pos
slhlllly Of organizing a new
scientific study OF problems
connected with such a sus-
lpension.
They reached no final de-
cislon.
II Big Three scientists cot
together they might consider
Technical dAta connected with
the detection Of testing. IN
GLIDING blasts In outer space.
This might involve cooperation
between the United States,
British and Soviet governments
In putting up artificial satel-
lites TO police such tests.
Meet In Herter's villa
Secretary Of State Herter,
British Foreign Secretary Sell
wyn Lloyd and Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Gromyko met
for 90 minutes in Mr.. Herter's
lakeside villa.
"All three expressed hope for
continued progress. said a
statement issued later by An
rev w. Berdine. United States
Assistant Secretary Of State.
1t was understood that there
probably win be further ex-
changes between the three gov
ernments on the subject Of
scientific talks, possibly at a
lower level than the foreign
ministers.
Mr.. Berding's statement said
the ministers shared the hope
that a scientific meeting could
quickly clarity matters that
could be written into a treaty"
Talks in Recess
Delegates Of the Big Three to
the Geneva nuclear. test ban
conference recessed Tuesday,
yielding their facilities in the
Palace of Nations to the East
West foreign ministers confer
ence.
Before they recessed Soviet
Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin &C.
cepted in principle the idea Of
a joint three-power study Of
the problems of outer space
blasts.
Conference sources said the
contemplated satellite program
would work this way: Each of
the three nations would put up
its own satellites, but there
would be agreement on the in
struments to be carried aloftI
and also on the ground moni-
toring stations which would re-
ceive the data.
Some hope was expressed in
Washington that the Western
powers will be able to reach
an accord with the Russians.
But there are still a lot Of big
problems to be solved. They
deal mainly with enforcing q
test ban.
France, which has not yet
Joined the atomic club, did not
take part in today's meeting.
The three atomic powers
have been discussing a treaty
to ban nuclear weapon tests for
the last six months here in
Geneva.
The talks have been recessed
until June 8 to avoid conflicting
with the conference on Ger
many. Mr.. Herter and Mr..
Lloyd invited Mr.. Gromyko to
sit down with them and review
progress to date.
Both sides have moved eau
tiously toward the idea of 1870
control posts around the world,
manned with mixed stats of
nationals and foreigners, to
check against violations of an
agreement to end tests. The
West wants a majority of for
eigners in each station. The
Russians insist the majority
must be citizens of the country
where the post is located.
The Soviets have proposed
limiting the number of on-site
inspections Of suspected explo-
sions. Expressing interest, the
Western powers are trying to
find out the number of inspec-
tons Moscow has in mind and
whether they could be carried
out free Of interference by the
host nation.
Phased Suspension PIan
The United States and Brit