REGULATION OF ARMAMENTS


after the President's speech of October 24 was to avoid having the reso-
lution fall within the context of the Soviet "peace proposals"
which
were then under debate in Committee One and also to give the other
member nations time to think ,abount the suggestion for a new commis-
sion, and time to formulate their views on the matter. I told Sir Keith
,that (the: US Delegation ,was most anxious to see that the President's
suggestion was given careful consideration during the current General
Assembly and was implemented to the maximum extent consistent
with the consensus. I added that if the general reaction to the Presi-
dent's suggestion appeared to be one of general approval, but at the
same time -one of reluctance to tackle the job of working out the
details during-the present General Assembly, then the US Delegation
would strongly favor the introduction of a resolution along the lines
of the Australian draft. Sir Keith said that, in view of the fore-
going, he would like to "shorten up somewhat" the earlier draft
reso-
lution of his Delegation, and transmit it to his foreign office to
determine whether it might be possible for the Australian Delegation
to. introduce it at an appropriate stage of the GA, presumably in
the course of the debate of the atomic energy question, which is sched-
uled to take place directly in plenary session.


PM Files
Miemorandum by AMr. R. Gordon Arneson' to the Secretary of State

TOP SECRET                        [WASHINGTON,] November 27, 1950.
Subject: Views of the AEC on the Current Adequacy of the Tech-
    nical Features of the United Nations Plan for ihe Control of
    Atomic Energy
  During the State-Defense study which culmina;ted in the NSC/68,2
considerable attention was directed toward the possibilities of, and
prerequisites for, securing effective international control of atomic
energy. Chapter VIII of NSC/618 concerning International Control
is appended as Tab A, the most pertinent section of which states:
  "The above considerations mlake it clear that at least ,a major
change in the relative power positions of the United States and the
Soviet Union would have to take place before ,an effective system of
  'Effective November 13, Arneson, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary
,of
State, became Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. He continued to
func-
tion as Departmental adviser on atomic energy matters.
  2For NSC 68, "United States Objectives and Programs for National Security,"
April 14, 1950, a Report to the National Security Council by its Executive
Secre-
tary, and related documentation, see pp. 126 ff.


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