INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC AGENCY

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28359, 19 August 1957, Page 8

INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC AGENCY

Russian Terms On Director

(NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, August 16. The United States has decided to accept the Soviet Union’s terms for agreeing to the appointment of an American director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a spokesman for the United States delegation said yesterday. The spokesman said that Mr Sterling Cole, former chairman of the joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee, was the probable candidate. Mr Cole is a Republican member of the Hbuse of Representatives from a New York State constituency. Other informants stiid that the Soviet Union had demanded two key assistant directorships as the price of assenting to the appointment of an American as directorgeneral. The Russians also were said to have asked for the directorgeneralship on completion of the American’s term, probably of four years. There was no comment on this report from the American delegation. Reuter’s United Naticns correspondent said that .he understood that Western delegations favoured having an American for the agency’s top post, particularly since President Eisenhower had advanced the idea of a worldwide atoms-for-peace unit in his address to the General Assembly in 1953. It was his suggestion which culminated in the creation of the agency.