SOVIET’S ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS TO BLOW UP ROCKS

Grey River Argus, 14 November 1949, Page 5

SOVIET’S ATOMIC EXPLOSIONS TO BLOW UP ROCKS

M. Vyshinsky’s Account ♦ (Rec. 9.20). NEW YORK. Nov. 12 Russia was preparing to open wide its doors to international atomic control inspection, so M. Andrei Vyshinsky, Soviet Foreign Minister, to-day told a Special Political Committee ot the United Nations. He said that, under the Russian plan, the proposed International Commission could “come into our house and could smell, feel and touch” atomic materials. Russia, however, would never hand over to any such Commission the ownership of any of its land, which, he said, was a requisite of the United States plan for atomic control. M. Vyshinskv said that there was no justification for the charges that Russia was trying to evade atomic control.

He referred to a previous statement made by him that Russia was using atomic "energy to “raze mountains”. M. Vyshinskv said: “What I referred to is this: There is large scale explosive work taking place. These projects, which require explosive activity, are carried out with the help of atomic energy”. M. Vyshinsky declared that the United States had used atomic explosions to kill scores of* thousands of people, “without any military need from the point of view of prosecuting war, or from the point of view of anybody’s war aims”. He added: “We are blowing up rocks. We are not just going to shake the air, because that would be economically unprofitable”. '