BARUCH CALLS FOR STANDBY PLAN FOR U.S. MOBILISATION

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1949, Page 6

BARUCH CALLS FOR STANDBY PLAN FOR U.S. MOBILISATION

NEW YORK, October 3.—Mr Bernard Baruch, the financier who hasbeen adviser to six Presidents, tonight said that the United States must , mediately create a standby mobilisation plan to meet the threat of atomic warfare. Mr Baruch helped to draw up the United States proposal submitted to the United Nations for in- • ternational control of atomic energy. Mr Baruch said that the United 1 States must maintain its overwhelming advantage in atomic weapons. He also urged the nation to re-examine its strategy for peace, and to stand i its ground in insisting on nothing less than truly effective international conl trol of atomic energy. I Mr Baruch said that he was not. I calling for a standby mobilisation programme that included “thoroughgoing” civilian defence in any alarmist • sense. » “If it were done properly, it could be our most effective single deterrent against another war,” he said. “Congress should enact all the necessary legislation to go into effect in the event of emergency. We dare not wait until bombs are falling to debate control of prices; wages, and rents, the elimination of profiteering, the rationing of scarce commodities, and civilian defence of cities and other measures.”