Evening star., 1961-07-17
Troiko and Tests

IL Is redSSurlng TO nOCe CnaC our
Government, after some weeks of SEEM
ing uncertainty and indeciSion, has be-
gun to speak out in clear, strong voice
cautioning Nikita KhruShchev and his
Communist co = conSpirators against
trying to impose their will, and their
coercive way of life, upon the free world
The start of this warning process
goes back to Secretary of State Dean
Rusk'S biting comments, in his Press
Club speech last week, on the utterly
mendaciouS nature of Soviet propa-
ganda, which Systematically turns the
truth upside down and deliberately does
violence to the normal meaning of
words like honor" freedom" and
Justice" that men are supposed to live
by. Mr.. RuSk has since followed up
these comments with his flat assertion
that our country, if necessary, will use
It's veto power to defeat Premier
hhruShchev'S avowed determination to
get rid of Secretary General Dag Ham
marSkjold and replace him with three
man directorate of the United Nations.
This directorate, as demanded by
d,
p three-horSe team made up of West
er11er, a Communist and a So-called
neutraliSt, each of whom would be en-
powered to veto any decision of sub
stance. In other words, as If intent upon
destroying the world organization by
reducing 1t to an abSurdity, Mr..
KhruShchev would have the U. N. be
run by an unavoidable and obvious ad-
miniStrative monstrosity that could
readily immobilize and paralyze the
Security Council, the General Assembly
and all related agencies in times of
crisis, making them altogether useless
q sort of tragic burlesque of what they
ire meant to be, as set forth in the
Charter of the United Nations.
Indeed, it is primarily because of
the Kremlin's insistence upon this
"troika" Set-up-which would permit
the three horses involved to ride off in
opposite directions in accord with Soviet
whim or dictate, and thus make effec-
tive policing impossible - that the
Geneva talks on banning nuclear tests
have come to an apparently hopeless
dead end. In effect, as Britain and the
United States have just charged in their
notes to Moscow, the Russians have
sabotaged the talks by demanding that
the West accept totally unacceptable
arrangements under which there would
be no possibility whatever of establish
ing genuinely trustworthy safeguards
against the danger of cheating in the
form OF clandestine underground
Gtomic-hydrogen detonations.
This danger, of course, has been
hanging over us for nearly three years
past, during which time we and the
British have suspended all experiment
tai nuclear shots. We have done so
without the slightest assurance against
Soviet cheating-whichc could be cheat
ing of militarily decisive kind. That
is one reason why Anglo o-American notes
have been addressed to Mr.. Hammar-
skiold to request that the General
Assembly, which is scheduled to meet
in September, put on its agenda the
urgent" matter of the Kremlin's re-
fusal to accept an adequately policed
ban agreement
This refusal, it need hardly be ad-
ded, suggests that the Russians want
no policing because they want to cheat
AS the Anglo-American notes to the
U. N. have declared, here is very real
possibility that involves "a serious risk"
to the security of the entire free world
That states the case mildly. Actually,
the risk is so grave that one wonders
why our Government does not resume
testing forthwith, in keeping with the
fundamental laws of survival and
self-preServation.