WEST’S STAND ENDORSED

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28554, 7 April 1958, Page 11

WEST’S STAND ENDORSED

Sir Leslie Munro On Control (Rec. 8 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. Sir Leslie Munro, president of the General Assembly of the United Nations and New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States, gave blanket approval to the West’s stand on disarmament at a press conference yesterday. The most important phase of the problem was a guarantee of the section calling for rigid control and inspection of countries with nuclear weapons. “Until we get a rigid agreement on inspection and controls, the West is justified in continuing tests,” Sir Leslie Munro said. Disarmament was the biggest problem facing the United Nations. He cautioned that one of its urgent phases was the control of outer space. The question of the definition of outer space must be resolved. “Where does air space end and outer space begin?” he asked. “The Russian disarmament proposal is vague and makes no mention of all the other essentials of a sound disarmament programme,” he said. But he said that these essentials and the Soviet boycott on the United Nations Disarmament Commission might be resolved at a summit conference.