DISARMING URGED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 5

DISARMING URGED

BIG THREE NATIONS U.S. SENATOR’S ADVOCACY OBVIATING ATOMIC WAR WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator Tydings, in introducing a resolution in the Senate urging President Truman immediately to call a world disarmament conference to prevent an atomic world war, said that since Germany and Japan would be kept disarmed it was plain that the great armed forces of the United States were being maintained principally for possible use against Russia, Britain, France or China. It was also plain that the Russians were maintaining armed forces for possible use against Britain, the United States, France or China. “Strangely enough. UNO seems content to have the nations agree only to control the atomic bomb,” he said. “It does not seem bent on prohibiting its future use. We cannot further rely on UNO in a world in which America, Britain and Russia are arming to the teeth despite their pledges to UNO.” Senator Tydings, in introducing a resolution, said the United States should not share the atomic secrets with England, Canada, Holland, Belgium or any other nation until the disarmament question was settled. “I want to serve notice that I intend opposing any loan to any nation until I am certain that none of the loan will be used directly or indirectly for armaments,” he said. The Associated Press says that Senator Tydings’ resolution suggested that the world conference should be charged with a single purpose of achieving world-wide disarmament of land, sea and air forces by January 1, 1950, except, first, for essential occupation forces as a result of the past war; secondly, such forces and weapons which are placed exclusively under the jurisdiction of the UNO Security Council, and, .thirdly, limited arms and forces to keep order within each country. The world conference should prohibit the manufacture, storage and possession of all other weapons and munitions and organise an international inspection force to see that the disarmament terms are strictly carried out.