'Nuclear Blackmail’

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30196, 30 July 1963, Page 13

'Nuclear Blackmail’

(NX. Press Association— Copyright)

TOKYO, July 29. China declared today that the United States negotiated a partial nuclear test ban treaty only because it wanted to continue “nuclear blackmail.” A Chinese broadcast charged that in his speech to the nation on Friday. President Kennedy explained the treaty initialled in Moscow by the United States. Britain, and the Soviet Union actually would help maintain United States nuclear capabilities. This would enable the United States “to carry on its policy of nuclear blackmail," the broadcast said. The New China News Agency which published the full text of the test ban treaty also published an editor’s note which alleged that "the leaders and press of the Soviet Union” and other Communist

governments and parties “went so far as to laud this treaty to the skies, calling it something of a prodigy. “Is this not deceiving oneself and others?” the note asked. “In an all-out effort to boost this treaty after it was initialled, certain persons described it as of great international importance',” the note said. This was an obvious reference to the Soviet Premier, Mr Khrushchev. The note added that Mr Kennedy “has laid bare completely the substance of this treatja—that it cannot restrict the United States, whereas it can restrict others, restricting those other socialist countries not now possessing nuclear weapons, and can restrain the socialist countries’ efforts to strengthen their national defence."