ATOMIC WEAPONS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 2

ATOMIC WEAPONS

QUESTION OF CONTROL Some members of the United States Congress believe that the entire UNO should be scrapped in favour of a new organisation to be built around control of atomic weapons. They assert that control of atomic power cannot be effective if any country can veto inspection of its own territory, says the United States News of Washington. This view is shared by the former British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, who holds that the veto power is an anachronism in the modern world and that the only way to make the world safe from atomic power is to change present ideas of the sovereignty of nations. If it should be reorganised with exclusive rights to atomic power and full authority to make universal inspections, the UNO would become much more important as an instrument to outlaw war than had been considered likely a.t the San Francisco Conference.