U.S. Call For Resumed Disarmament Talks

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 13

U.S. Call For Resumed Disarmament Talks

- (Bee. 10 p.m.) NEWPORT, July 21. The United States, seeking to reduce the risk of war, will call for an early meeting of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, President Eisenhower said tonight.

The President said the Soviet Union's abrupt break-up of the 10-nation -disarmament talks in Geneva last month “makes it de-

sirable to take further steps so that the vital issue of disarmament can be considered promptly once again.” The President instructed Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, chief of the United States United Nations delegation, to seek an early meeting of the United Nations Disarmament Commission —made up of all 82 United Nations member countries. A majority—42 nations must approve any such meeting Mr Eisenhower said he was taking the action “so that we and other members of the international community can continue to search for ways apd means to achieve the universal desire to reduce the risk of war by controlled steps of disarmament. “Our efforts to get the Soviet Union to return to the conference table through normal diplomatic channels have not met with success.

“The need for disarmament in the present world situatioa is too important to set aside at the present time when deliberate efforts are being made to increase tensions,” he said. This was a clear allusion to the Soviet anti-American campaign toe Kremlin has been waging since the collapse of the Paris summit conference last May. American Associated Press said. The President's press secretary. Mr James Hagerty, told reporters at the “summer White House" in Newport that with the filing of the request at the United Nations tomorrow by Mr Lodge, the United States representatives would be recalled from Geneva because the whole question of disarmament was going before the Disarmament Commission of the United Nations. Mr Hagerty said the President and the Secretary of State, Mr Christian Herter. had discussed the plan at a meeting earlier this week and discussed it again this afternoon by telephone.