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Meets West more than half way

NEW SOVIET PLAN FOR DISARMAMENT

Sfage 1: NO ROCKETS

(Time for this stage: 1 year to 18 months) |

Nuclear weapons: All means of delivering them to be
scrapped and no more nuclear weapons to be made.

TO BE SCRAPPED:

ROCKETS and missiles of every range; War Planes which
can carry nuclear weapons; All Submarines; Surface Warships
which can carry nuclear weapons; Artillery and other méthods
of firing nuclear weapons.

Foreign Bases: All foreign bases to be abolished and all}
troops to be withdrawn to their own countries. |
Banned from the start of this stage; “placing of any “special |
devices” in space; sending of warships or planes which can |

Carry nuclear weapons outside a country’s own borders.

Rockets for peaceful purposes to’ be launched only under |
control, with inspection of launching sites. |
Nuclear Know-How not to be passed to ‘non-nuclear’ cotn- }
tries and these would pledge not to make any such weapons. |
Arms Budgets: Countries would. cut their arms budgets |
accordingly. :
Controls for the first stage to include: |
On-the-Spot international control over the scrapping of |
missles, war planes, submarines, surface warships and other
means of delivering nuclear weapons. |

Inspection Teams to supervise abolition of foreign bases |
and withdrawal of troops to their own countries. Such inter- ;
National inspection teams to be stationed also at ports and
airports to see they are not used for war purposes.

International Control Organization to supervise scrapping
of missile launching stations.

Factories and dockyards previously used for making any
of the scrapped weapons of delivery to be open to inspection
by the control organization.

Joint Study to be made of how to end production of nu- |
clear, chemical and biological weapons and destroy stockpiles |
in the second stage.

Sfage 2: NO BOMBS

Nuclear Weapons to be banned; production to stop, and
Stockpiles to be scrapped.

Chemical, biological and other mass destruction weapons
also to be banned, production to cease and stockpiles destroyed.

Forces to be reduced to agreed levels; those of the Soviet
Union and the United States to 1,700,000 each.

Conventional weapons and ammunition made surplus by
these cuts shall be scrapped: other surplus military equipment
to be scrapped or used for peaceful purposes.

Arms Budgets to be cut accordingly.

Controls for the second stage to include:
On-the-Spot inspection by control organization representa-
tives of the destruction of all stockpiles of nuclear, chemical
and bacteriological weapons.

Plants engaged in extracting atomic raw material, in pro-
duction or use of atomic materials and energy, to be open to
control organization inspectors.

Disbanning of surplus troops and destruction of surplus
Weapons to be carried out. under. on-the-spot international
control.

Inspectors, including appropriate experts, will supervise
these steps and report to the control council,

Budget checks will be carried out by the control organ-
ization, with access to the necessary documents and decrees,

Joint Studies to be made on measures to assure compliance |
With the measures in the treaty on general and complete dis-|
armament; and on measures to safeguard peace in accordance
With the U.N. Charter once the world is disarmed.

Stage 3: NO SOLDIERS

All Armed Forces to be scrapped.

Limited Police contingents for keeping order to be the
Only force countries shall keep. Size of these contingents to be
48reed for each country; this police force would be armed only
With small firearms.

To be Scrapped: All remaining conventional weapons and
ammunition.

. Military Production at all factories to stop. Only the small
rearms needed for the police force would be excepted.

War Ministries, general staffs, and all military and para-

In their .attempt to

keep the cold. war alive,
the big business press in
British Columbia has de-
clared an almost complete
blackout on the new pro-
posals advanced by ° the
Soviet Union at the 10-
nation disarmament talks
in Geneva.
' Originally advanced by
Mr. Khrushchey more
than two weeks ago, these
far - reaching ‘proposals
were to have been pre-
sented at the ill-fated
summit meeting. But 'U:S.
provocation ‘made that
impossible. :

The Pacific Tribune
here carries an extensive
summary of the new So-
viet plan as a contribu-
tion to. the. fight for
peace.

mbilitary establishments and organizations to be abolished.
Military Training of any kind to stop, conscription to be
banned in any form; military education of young people to

| be banned by law in each country.

Budgets for military purposes to be abolished, whether the
funds come from state or private sources.
Funds released as a result of total disarmament to be used

to cut-or abolish taxation, to subsidize national economies, and |

to give help to under-developed countries.
Controls for the third stage to include:

Controllers from the international control organization
to be sent for on-the-spot inspection of the abolition of war
ministries, general staffs, all military establishments; ending of
military training and conscription.

Control to be set up over the abolition of arms budgets.

Open Skies — aerial inspection and photography — may,
when necessary be instituted by the control organization over

| countries’. territory.

Time for the entire three-stage Soviet plan: four years or
some other agreed period.

Soviets ask West to submit
own disarm plan at Geneva

GENEVA — U.S. Ambassador F. Eaton told the 10-

nation Disarmament Committee in Geneva that despite)

the fact that Soviet proposals were a “positive movement”
toward the western position, the U.S. objected to Soviet

proposals for withdrawal of all U.S. forces from foreign |

bases. He claimed the right to maintain them indefinitely.

Commenting on Eaton’s

‘stand, Soviet representative, | JOHN Foster Dulles

Mr. Zorin, said “one cannot

hope for’ agreement umes Praised by Herter

there is a movement forward |

: ; | US. “Secretary “of State,
on both sides.” |Christian Herter last week

| paid tribute to the ‘‘wise poli-
Zorin said’ if the West con- | cies” of John Foster Dulles on
sidered that the new Soviet | the first anniversary of the
proposals created an unbal- | death of his predecessor. ‘‘His
i i tween con- ‘ 4

anced situation _betw | guide us,” he said.
ventional and nuclear See] This comment gives us a
he was prepared to discuss any | better insight into the new

Western proposals.

|the U.S. is going to Paris

i lan. Desor
disarmament. pia | “without hope of success.”

He called | Secretary of State who three |
on the West to submit its own | Weeks before the summit said |

US. pushes germ
warfare pians

Biological and chemical war-
fare is occupying an increas-
ingly more important place. in
he over-all U.S. war prepara-
tions, according to revelations
in the U.S. press and utter-
ances by the military.

The New York Post said’ in
a recent issue: “The (U.S.)
army has launched a campaign
to make germ warfare and
poison gas popular, especially
with people who don’t want to
spend ‘much on luxuries like
nuclear bombs.”

It said: “It permits almost
immediate invasion after use
whereas nuclear radiation
from competing products

causes delays.”

It added: “It’s cheap. It’s
simple. It covers more ground.
It kills more people than
bombs.”

Last week it was reported
from Washington that $35.5
million are included in the
new U.S. military budget now
going through Congress to
build a stockpile of rockets
equipped with warheads able
to carry-death-dealing germs.

Also included in the mili-
tary budget is an appropria-
tion for spending an additional
$55 million for research, devel-
opment and production of
germ agents and nerve gases
of the death-dealing variety.

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