U.N. ARMS DEBATE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 13

U.N. ARMS DEBATE

Talks May Be Delayed NEW YORK. July 6. Western delegates said at the United Nations last night that it was now unlikely that the 82member Disarmament Commission would be hurriedly summoned to discuss the position after the breakdown of the 10nation Geneva negotiations. Immediately after the Geneva talks were suspended a meeting of the commission had been freely forecast as the United States was known to be anxious to submit its latest, proposals and to have a i full debate on the disarmament issue.

Usually reliable sources said that this plan had been abandoned, at any rate for the time being. One of the principal arguments against convening the commission, they added, was the likelihood that any debate would develop into an East-West slandering match, diminishing even further the chance* of constructive negotiations. The sources did not rule out the possibility of the commission meeting before the next session of the General Assembly in September, but they said such a meeting might be only procedural, and would not go into the substance of disarmament. The "New York Times” said the Washington representatives of the five Western Powers had delayed taking a decision on calling the commission into session. They now intended waiting on the response of Mr Khrushchev to Western suggestions that the Geneva negotiations be resumed.

The newspaper quoted reliable sources as saying that they saw no possibility that Mr Khrushchev would agree to this and that the matter would eventually be decided by default.

Baby Expected.—Princess Margaret’s husband. Mr Antony Arm-strong-Jones, will soon have a step-brother (or sister), according to the “Daily Mail.” Jennifer, the 31-year-old third wife of Mr Armstrong-Jones’s father, was expecting a baby “a month or so before Christmas,” the newspaper said. Mr Ronald ArmstrongJones. a 60-year-old Q.C., was married in February.—London, July 5.