ATOMIC CONTROL

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22404, 11 August 1947, Page 5

ATOMIC CONTROL

QUERIES POLICY OF SOVIET CLARIFICATION SOUGHT (10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 10. Britain has prepared a list of key questions “for the highest authorities in Moscow to answer” on the whole Soviet position on atomic control. This new move to overcome sharp disagreements on which the negotiations for atomic control have been bogged down was announced to the United Nations’ Atomic Commission’s political committee by Mr. Richard Miles, Britain, soon after the Soviet representative, M- Gromyko, again flatly rejected the basic principles on ownership, management and control of atomic materials and facilities, which are favoured by the majority of the commission.

The questions, which were drawn up in London by a committee working under the British Foreign Office direction, will be submitted to M. Gromyko for transmission to Moscow this weekend. *, , , The Associated Press understands that the questions deal with the following points: 1. Does Russia believe that some minor sanctions can be imposed by a majority vote or must every sanction be subject to the veto? 2. Will atomic inspectors be allowed to visit any plants not reported to the proposed international atomic energy agency? 3. Will Russia agree to one complete treaty, as favoured by a majority of the commission, or will she insist on separate conventions, one for the immediate prohibition of the atom bomb and another for controls and a third for atomic quotas for the nations? 4 Does Russia accept any other form of control other than inspection by the international agency?