ATOMIC DISCLOSURES OPPOSED
FORMER MEMBER OF U.S. COMMISSION NEW YORK, June 19. The United States must not fall into the costly fallacy of accepting any scheme for international control of atomic energy without first being certain that open ownership, control,, and inspection of atomic enterprises the world over would be achieved, said Mr Lewis Strauss, a recentlyretired member of the United States Atomic Commission. Mr Strauss, who was addressing the annual meeting of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association, said it would bo pointless for the United States to disclose the size of the stockpile and production rate of atomic weapons, as had been advocated in some quarters. He added that any plan for international control must be conditional on the lifting of the iron curtain. “No nation can be assumed to be governed by the moral . standards to which we subscribe, if it is a nation which has a record of treating solemn covenants as temporary expedients and which, as a matter of public doctrine, denies the existence of moral law.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 210, 21 June 1950, Page 5
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