War Provocation Alleged— MR VYSHINSKY IN ANGRY MOOD

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1948, Page 5

War Provocation Alleged — MR VYSHINSKY IN ANGRY MOOD

(Recd. 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, October 12. With his voice rising, Mr Vyshinsky shouted: I have proof that there is a large group in the world inciting war—war provocateurs trying to kindle a new war.” , He was addressing the United Nations Political Committee, which was discussing the Soviet resolution calling for a one-third reduction of the armaments of the major Powers and control of the atomic bomb. ’ Mr Vyshinsky accused the three Western Powers of going beyond all permissible limits in what he called their unbridled attacks on the Soviet. “They have not shrunk from any measures to poison. Their slander attempts have blacked the Soviet Union.

Mr Vyshinsky spoke after Mr Warren Austin (America), and he attacked Mr Austin for directing his “slanders not only at the Soviet disarmament proposals but at the Soviet Union itself.” Test of Soviet Sincerity

In his address' Mr Austin said: “The world situation is too grave to permit any further play with words.” He asked why Russia did not make her disarmament proposals months ago to the United Nations Commission on conventional armaments.

Referring to the necessity for

adequate safeguards to reassure the nations undertaking disarmament, Mr Austin said: “The critical aspect of this question is the steadfast refusal of the Soviet Union, in the study of atomic control and in the field of con-

ventional armaments, to agree in

common with the other members to open its territory to United Nations inspection.”

Mr Austin asked: “Does anyone think for a moment that the members of the United Nations should disarm while the Soviet gives no evidence whatsoever that it is willing to participate in the world cornniunity to

the extent required for the control of atomic energy and the regulation of armaments?” Too Far and Too Fast

He said the Soviet object in proposing the control of disarmament under the Security Souncil, with “the veto as a trapdoor,” was too obvious to permit serious consideration. Mr Austin admitted that the United States had disarmed too far and too fast after the war. The United States, he added, would speed up its rearmament programme to stop the “heavy hand of Russia’s constant drive for world power.” The programme was needed to restore the balance of power relationship.

Almost Screamed

Shouting, almost screaming, Mr Vyshinsky accused the West of lying about its atomic bomb aims. “You want to reject the prohibition of the atomic bomb, but .make people believe you are not in favour of the atomic bomb. You shower blame on us at every turn.” Mr Vyshinsky repeated that the Soviet was prepared to accept any or all measures to ensure that the proposal for one-third reduction of Big Power armaments was carried “without any fooling.”