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we must build up our strength and that of the free world so that the
Soviet. Union will find aggression an unpromising and unprofitable
venture. — | | _

qeveeemarnatene

Editorial Note

_ The meetings of the Working Committee of the Commission for
Conventional Armaments held during the period May 18-August 9,
1950, were devoted in large part to the discussion of four working
papers presented by the United States: (1)S/C.3/ SC.3/23, “General
Views on Item 3 (‘Safeguards’) of the Plan of Work adopted by
the Commission,” May 18, 1950; for text, see Department of State.
Bulletin, June 12, 1950, pages 957-958, or Documents on Disarma-
ment, volume I, pages 233-235; (2) S/C.3/ SC.3/24, “Proposed Con-
ventional Armaments Administration,” J une 22, 1950; for text, see
ibid., pages 235-239; (3) S/C.8/S8C.3/25, “General ‘Views on the
Nature and Scope of -Military Safeguards—Information on Military
and Para-Military Establishments to be Reported, Inspected, and
Verified,” July 18, 1950; for text, see ibid., pages 240-247; (4) S/C.3/
SC.3/26, “General Views on the Nature and Scope of ‘Industrial Safe-
guards’—Safeguards Through Industrial Information,” July 13, 1950 ;
for text, see ibid., pages 247-248, | 7 |
The progress report of the Working Committee (S/ C.3/48), not
published, including summary records of meetings and working
papers considered, was transmitted to the Commission on August 9.
In its report to the Security Council, S/1690, August 15, not pub-
lished, the Commission transmitted the report of the Working Com-
mittee and the summary records of its own meetings. The Security
Council took no action with respect to the report of the CCA during
the remainder of 1950.

 

230.11/6-2050 : Telegram
Lhe Ambassador in Denmark (Anderson) to the Secretary of State

SECRET CorenHAGEN, June 20, 1950—6 p.m.

440. In several conversations over weekend Professor Niels Bohr?
stated that he had sent his open letter to UN 2 in hope of making a

*Danish theoretical physicist and pioneer in the development of nuclear
physics; adviser, Manhattan Engineer District (United States atomic bomb
development program), 1943~1945. |

*For text of the open letter addressed by Professor Bohr. to the United
Nations, June 9, 1950, see Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 1950, pp. 213-
217, 219. The communication advocated a system of free exchange of ideas
and information among nations. For documentation on Bohr’s proposal for “open-
ness” presented to United States Officials in 1948, see Foreign Relations, 1948,

vol. 1, Part 1, pp. 311 ff.