DISARMAMENT PLANS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27147, 17 September 1953, Page 9

DISARMAMENT PLANS

Stevenson Calls For New Efforts

(Rec. 10 p.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Mr Adlai Stevenson tonight called for new efforts at world disarmament and durable assurances of non-aggres-sion for the Soviet Union and all the world. “The door to the conference room is the door to peace. Let it never be said America was reluctant to enter,” he said. t Mr Stevenson spoke to a nationwide radio and television audience after

what he said was a sobering experience—his trip to 26 nations and conferences with numerous world leaders.

“Step by step, we are winning the cold war/* Mr Stevenson said. But, he continued, “This is no time to wobble or lower our guard, no time to go it alone.” He warned against disarmament by the United States alone, and said: “We seem to be taking the initiative in unilateral disarmament.” This, he said, tied in with his observations that other countries were unable to reconcile American talk about international peril with the cuts in her defepce budget. Mr Stevenson said world conditions were better and hope was in the air. There was admiration for America in other countries, but also misunderstandings * and concern. “There is anxiety lest the shaping of our policy may be slipping from the respected hands of President Eisenhower into the hands of men less concerned with strengthening our alliances abroad than with appeasing our isolationists at home.”