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nounced agreement on a set
of eight principles for general
disarmament but reported to
the United Nations General
Assembly they had been unable
to agree on the composition of
a negotiating body.
Both looked to the General
Assembly to work out the for
UNI in which the disarmament
principles could be applied.
The principles call for aboi-
ton of all weapons of mass
destruction and disbanding Of
armed forces.
Offsets Criticism
1t also called for building up
a U. N. military force, de-
scribed as an international
peace force" as provided In the
: U. N. Charter. The United
States has backed creation Of
a strong U. N. military force
in former years. Russia has
advocated this idea on occa-
sion, but has refused to CO.
operate in setting up or using
such a force,
One Canadian authority
judged the unexpected Soviet
agreement as intended to offset
criticism at the United Nations
for the Kremlin's resumption
Of t1uclear tests.
United States officials re-
garded the mere willingness of
the Soviet Union to agree with
the United States on anything,
rather than the substance Of
the agreement, as the most
significant development.
There was some anticipation
Of a gradual easing Of tensions
over Berlin, probably after the
Communist Party Congress in
Moscow in the second half Of
October.
United States diplomats were
not ready to dance in the
streets, however, over the slight
Kremlin shift, since Russia has
not relented on its "troika" or.
three-bloc formula for COM
posing the disarmament nego-
tiating body.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Min
lister Valerian Zorin, who con-
Quoted three sets Of talks with
President Kennedy's disarma-
ment adviser, John j. McCloy,
started and ended with the
same position on the makeup
of the Disarmament Commits
sion.
Resisted by McCIOy
The negotiations should be
conducted, he said, by Is ma
tons, five each from the West,
the Soviet bloc and the uncom-
mitted powers. Mr.. McCloy
stoutly resisted this variation
on the troika but could not get
Mr.. Zorin to agree to any one
Of four alternatives he proposed.
The donation committee
which met last year could be
reconVened, Mr.. McCloy sug-
gested; or the donation group
could be augmented with three
presiding officials from UNI
committed nations; or q 20
nation committee could be
chosen; or the. entire member
ship Of the United Nations
General Assembly could sit as
a Disarmament Commission.
Mr.. zorip rejected each Of
these proposals.
In the discussion on prin-
ciples to guide disarmament
negotiations, Russia in the end
dropped its inSiStence that gen.
eral and complete disarmament
be completed in four years.
Since this was obviously i'm
practical, the omission was
considered only a minor con-
ceSSion.
The Russians did permit
more explicit language about
inspection at all stages of the
general disarmament program
than they had been willing to
allow previously.
American officials were sus-
picious of this change, however,
because it contrasted so sharply
with Soviet policy tn rejecting
meaningful inspection for a
nuclear test ban treaty.
While Mr.. Zorin was ready
to renounce the veto In the
general principles, for instance;
the Soviet Union had held on
to the veto in the test ban
negotiations.
Russia accepted this Ian.