REGULATION OF .-ARMy-ýENTS-


     Reali ig ts responsibilities and desirous -of.seeing ,the objectives
   stated. in the United Nations Charter .fulfilled,t his Government has
   guided itself along itwo lines, First, it has taken the position that
the
   planning activities for the international control of atomic energy and
   the regulation and reduction of conventional armaments and armed
   forces should go forward for implementation when conditions permit,
   Second, it has been working for measures to build up the political,
   economic and military strength of the non-communist nations in order
   to convince the Soviet Union that its biest. interests will be served
by
   unqualified:cooperation with other.United Nations Member nations
   andvso make agreements meaningful.
   Counter to this .Government's position the United Nations records
   reveal that in every instance of any importance, in every forum since
   the establishment of the two Commissions the Soviet Union has op-
   posed and has voted against :the majority's propals relating o the
   possiblel international control of atomic energy and the regulation and
   reduction of armaments and armed forces. The inescapable conclusion
   is that all efforts for the foreseeable future, whether within the United
   Nations or outside of it, toward achieving disarmament will be
   thwarted by the Soviet Union which by its -objectives, policies, and
   methods is making ever clearer it does not want universal disarma-
   ment with the necessary concomitants of effective safeguards and con-
   trols to protect complying states against violations and invasions
   [ev0asions]. In the existing situation to ignore this fact would be to
   ignore the obvious responsibility of the Soviet Union for the lack of
 progress toward disa~rmament and would be to create a false illusion
 that some new method of approaching the Soviet Union would cause
 the reality of Soviet obstructionism to disappear. Accordingly, the
 Department strongly believes that the calling of an international con-
 ference by the United Nations for -the -purpose of attempting to reach
 an understanding and agreement for disarmanent would suffer the
 same fate as the pa)tient labors already expended in the United Nations.
 In fact, the calling Of an-international-conference might have quite the
 opposite effect from that so earnestly desired by the resolution since it
 might Wellresult in wipingout such progress as has ,been made in the
 fields of-the control of ,atomic energy andthe regulation and reduction
 of conventional atrmaments.
 .The United States has taken the position in both areas of.nego-
 tiation that the security of this nation and of all peaceful and freedom-
 loving peoples requires the establishment of effective safeguards and
 controls which would protect complying states against violations and
 invasions. -The Soviet Union by its actions has rejected this concept.
 Instead it has presented superficially attractive proposals for the pro-
hibition and destruction of atomic weapons and the reduction of con-


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