America Plans New Nuclear Ban Move

Press, Volume C, Issue 29539, 14 June 1961, Page 15

America Plans New Nuclear Ban Move

(NJ!. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, June 13. The Kennedy Administration was preparing a “White Paper” on the atomic test-ban question, the New York “Herald Tribune” said today.

The document was designed to put the Soviet Union squarely on the carpet before the world for its obduracy in demanding the right of veto over international inspections.

tospectors would have the simple duty of enforcing the test-ban. the newspaper said in a Washington dispatch. The Soviet Union, as President Kennedy again emphasised last week, was demanding the right to veto the policeman whose job would be to police the ban. The “White Paper” presutnably would: Document the “closed society” secrecy that had always existed in the Soviet Union. Pinpoint the swift and clandestine advances made there since World War II on revolutionary weapons technology. Recount the ample evidence of treaty-breaking by the Soviet Union. Declare the futility and danger of a test-ban so long as any signatory to it could veto the policeown assigned to enforcement. The aim of the “White Paper” would be to pave the way for an eventual assertion by the United States of the right to resume underground

testing, in which there was no fall-out hasard. First, however, the “Herald Tribune" said, it was be- ' lieved essential to prepare , world public opinion for the reason behind the assertion so that the United States would not take the blame for ending the 31-month moratorium. Deadline In Cincinnati, Ohio, last night, the former President, Mr Dwight Eisenhower, suggested that a deadline be set for a nuclear test ban agreement. At a press conference before he addressed 1500 guests at a Republican Party dinner

in his honour. Mr Eisenhower said: “We cannot much longer put this thing on ice. The time has come when we are going to have to fix a date. “I told my own people before I left office we were going to have to take ateps to lay down a date where we would no longer be bound by an agreement, tacit or otherwise. "We already have made the statement that we are no longer bound to abstain from testing but we have not yet fixed a date. “While the talking goes on. so far as we know these tests may be going on in that vast (Russian) interior "