NOT TIME FOR DISARMAMENT IS U.N.O. DECISION

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1948, Page 5

NOT TIME FOR DISARMAMENT IS U.N.O. DECISION

“Still Without Any Conclusions” (Rec. 9.5) NEW YORK, Aug. 12 The United Nations to-day decided to defer any disarmament programme until the 'big Powers achieve more friendly relations. The decision was made in the Commission for Conventional Armaments. It came when the Commission approved of the working committee’s report, which found that the Berlin crisis, the Big Powers’ failure to agree on the control of atomic energy, and other East-West difficulties have made it too dangerous to contemplate any complete reduction of the armies now. The commission also adopted an Anglo-American suggestion that a United Nations world police force be established before arms are reduced. M. Jacob Malik (Soviet) charged that the United States had sabotaged disarmament hopes by linking the questions of atomic energy control to arms reduction. M. Dmitri Manuilsky (Ukraine), declared that, if international confidence was necessary, then disarmament was a good way to make a The Western Powers retorted that this was a simple explanation, but that the peoples of the world were not simple-minded enough to accept it.

Hush Hush U.S. Supplies Arrive In Britain LONDON, August 12 United States Army and Air Force mobile equipment, including heavy lorries, jeeps, and bomb carriers, arrived at Liverpool for American servicemen stationed at Warrington. The United States Army transport, the Oglethorpe Victory, transported the equipment under hushhush conditions, while American officers, who strictly supervised the unloading, said: “We cannot disclose how many vehicles the ship brought.” ft is understood that two more sup-ply-laden ships will arrive soon. Extra cranes and R.A.F. aircraft co-operated in the quick handling of the cargoes.