SUB-COMMITTEE OF UNO ENDORSES U.S. ATOMIC PLAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 6

SUB-COMMITTEE OF UNO ENDORSES U.S. ATOMIC PLAN

PARIS, October 9.

The 11-nation sub-committee which is charged with the drawing up of a compromise atomic energy resolution approved by nine votes to two the key paragraph in a resolution endorsing the United States plan for atomic control. It rejected by the same vote a Russian attempt “not to give any appraisal of the work of the Atomic Energy Commission.” The committee adjourned until Monday to consider a new draft of the Canadian resolution, asking the Secretary-General to reconvene the Atomic Energy Commission to determine whether there exists a basis for agreement. When the sub-committee adjourned on Friday it was still bogged down on the first paragraph of the Canadian resolution.

The sub-committee is charged with examining the following six proposals already before the Political Committee of the General Assembly: 1. The Soviet compromise plan, conceding that the destruction and banning of the atomic bomb should be accepted by all nations at the same time as “effective international control of atomic energy production.” (Previously the Russians had insisted that destruction should come before control.) 2. The Canadian draft resolution, calling on the General Assembly to pronounce judgment on the East-West deadlock in the Atomic Energy Commission. 3. The New Zealand plan that the Big Five and Canada should consult together after the present session of the General Assembly “to determine when there might exist a basis for agreement on international control.” 4. The' Australian proposal that the Atomic Energy Commission “continue its meetings and deliberations to guide and assist the nations in the discharge of their responsibilities for international control.” 5. The Syrian plan that the Atomic Energy Commission go ahead with the drawing up of a treaty for control based on the views of the Western, majority. 6. The Indian resolution suggesting that the Soviet compromise plan indicates that a new situation has arisen and calling on the commission to prepare a draft treaty in the

light of this situation. The chairman (Sir Narsing Rau) ruled on Friday that the sub-commit-tee should consider the resolutions in the order of submission.