SOVIET OFFER ON ARMS
“Readiness To Go Halfway” (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. The Western Powers are hoping that the Soviet Union will give a practical demonstration of its declared readiness to go halfway on disarmament when the Disarmament Commiasion meets, probably next month, & United Nations correspondent of Reuter said today. One well-informed source said last night that Mr Vyshinsky, the Soviet delegate, in his remarks before the General Assembly yesterday, went considerably further than he had ever done before. The fact that Mr Vyshinsky voted against the majority disarmament resolution because the Assembly would not accept both of his amendments had not closed the door, this source said. Delegates remarked that Mr Vyshinsky had rarely been more conciliatory in tone or more friendly in his personal references. In addition he announced that in an effort to reach agreement he would not press his own resolution which had demanded that the disarmament
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 9
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