ATOM PLAN OF PRESIDENT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 6

ATOM PLAN OF PRESIDENT

MR LODGE OUTLINES U.N. ROLE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 2. President Eisenhower’s proposal for the international development of atomic energy for peaceful purposes will be in operation in two years, Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, the Chief United States delegate to the United .Nations, predicted yesterday. The United States is ready to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on the proposal and will talk with Soviet representatives whenever the Kremlin desires, he said at a press conference. The United Nations’ “most important” role in setting up the programme will be the calling of an international scientific conference next spring, he said. That conference, which might be held in New York or elsewhere, will be attended by leading scientists and governmental representatives and the Soviet Union will be welcome, said Mr Lodge. international agency which will control the programme for putting nuclear energy to peaceful uses will be established by direct negotiations, he said. It will work out its own relationship with the United Nations after it has been established, and it might well become a new specialised agency of the world organisation, said Mr Lodge. Yesterday the United Nations Secre-tary-General (Mr Dag Hammarskjold) announced the appointment of a secretariat committee, headed by Dr. Ralph Bunche, to study United Nations responsibilities which might result from the United States proposals. He said the committee would undertake study of organisational arrangements for the international scientific conference, and possible organisational relationships of the United Nations with the proposed international agency.