ATOMIC WORLD WAR

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1946, Page 5

ATOMIC WORLD WAR

FEARED AMONG BIG POWERS U.S.A. Senator Proposes Prohibition WASHINGTON, January 28. Senator Tydings introduced a resolution in the Senate urging President Truman immediately to call a world disarmament conference to prevent an atomic world war. Senator Tydings 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 and China.

“Strangely enough,” he continued, “U.N.O. seems content to have nations agree only 1 to control the atomic bomb. It does not seem bent on prohibiting its future use. We cannot further rely on U.N.O. in a world wherein America, Britain and Russia are arming to the teeth despite the pledges to U.N.0.” (Rec. 7.30). WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Senator Tydings, in introducing his resolution, said: “The United States should not share its atomic secrets with England, Canada, Holland, Belgium, or any other nation until the disarmament question is settled.

“I want to serve notice that I intend opposing any loan to any nation until I am certain that none of that loan' will be used, directly or indirectly, for armaments.” The Associated Press of America says: Senator Tydings’ resolution has suggested that the world conference proposed should be charged with the single purpose of achieving world-wide disarmament by land, sea, and air, by January 1, 1950, except as regards the following provisions:— (1) For essential occupation forces ;s the result of the past war. (2) Such forces and weapons to be placed exclusively under the jurisdiction of the U.N.O. Security Council. (3) Limited arms and forces to keep order within each country. The resolution proposes that the proposed world conference should prohibit the manufacture, storage and possession of all other weapons and munitions, and should authorise an international inspection force to see that the terms of disarmament are strictly carried out.