FILIBUSTER CHARGE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29827, 21 May 1962, Page 11

FILIBUSTER CHARGE

Soviet Speech Criticised <N Z.PA.-Reuter— Comnoht) GENEVA, May 19 Britain yesterday accused the Soviet Union of “filibustering” the nuclear test ban talks to sain time for its own test series, the Associated Press reported In a clash at the talks, the British delegate iMr Joseph Godher) to’d the Soviet delegate to “roll up h interminable speeches and allow v--to get on with the job" H described a speech by the Russian delegate <Mr Semyon Tssrapkin) as “a masterly exhibition of an elaborate filibuster. This repetit'on is getting us nowhere.” he said Earlier. Mr Arthur Dean (United States) noted that the Soviet Prime Min ster (Mr Khrushchev) ha~’ c'aihied in a speech in Bulgaria that Russia was forced to test because of the American series. “Mr Khrushchev conveniently overlooked the fact that it was. the Soviet Union which broke the three-year-old moratorium,” Mr Dean said Mr Tsarapkin talked for half of the two-hour session, repeating the Soviet stand against an international, control and inspection system.