Comment Made In Britain

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 13

Comment Made In Britain

<R “- « P-m.) LONDON, May 11. Mr Anthony Nutting, the British Mmister of State at the Foreign Office, said today that Russia’s new disarmament proposals had given a new lease „ Ufe to the five-nation disarmament conference. t He revealed that Mr Malik referred me Russian plan to the disarmament conference in London yesterday. Mr Nutting said that the declaration ’as an important, and in many reSP «w S ’ €ncou raging development. ne shall study the terms of the new Proposals with great care, but they do not seem to have accepted all the necessary conditions for effective Rational control,” he said. "The declaration marks a significant x T2> nce • on seve ral major points tor views which have been advoJhlky tbe Western delegations in me Disarmament Conference for sevnf ♦x WeeicS- We s ball study the terms hi h tu new Proposals with great care all ey do not seem to have accepted “U the necessary conditions for effecU “Jfernational control.” w i Cutting said the Western Powers +r2i d c °ntinue to insist that the control organ must have the right to carry inspection everywhere in any country. The Soviet reference to the peace-

ful use of atomic energy resembled the proposals which he (Mr Nutting) introduced on April 18, which the Soviet delegate at the conference described as “irrevelant.” Mr Nutting said that if agreements were reached on major reductions in armed forces and armaments, the importance of overseas military bases would immediately be reduced. “Under the new Soviet proposals the cessation of nuclear weapon tests would form part of a comprehensive disarmament treaty. “It would therefore not take effect until after the treaty had entered into force and until other measures of disarmament had been started.”