ARMS PLAN

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 13

ARMS PLAN

New Attempt To Win Support (Rec. ’8 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 22. The United States Government plans a new effort to win support for President Eisenhower’s “open sky” arms proposal plan when the United Nations Disarmament Commission convenes tomorrow. In spite of the rejection of the plan by the Soviet Prime Minister, Marshal Bulganin, a United States delegation source said the United States would take advantage of the opportunity to focus further attention on the Eisenhower plan. The President’s proposal, debated in a United Nations sub-committee last year, calls for an exchange of military blueprints with the right of unimpeded aerial inspection of each other’s territory by the United States and the Soviet Union. The plan eventually would be extended to other countries, but would not include bases abroad without the consent of the countries where the bases are located. The Disarmament Commission, comprising the 11 members of the Security Council and Canada, was expected to hold a brief session—probably not lasting more than two days—beginning tomorrow. Its main business will be to set up again its sub-committee of the world’s major atomic Powers, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and Canada. This group held two series of fruitless meetings last year, seeking agreement on a disarmament plan acceptable to all. It was expected that the sub-com-mittee would meet again in London, probably in March, but there was a possibility that further meetings might be held in Geneva. The General Assembly on December 16. by 56 votes to seven, urged that the States concerned, and particularly those on the sub-committee of the Disarmament Commission, continue efforts to reach agreement on a “comprehensive disarmament plan.”