Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At last, after weeks of debate and conferences, the nation got a bill to set up domestic control of atomic power. Between the House and Senate there had been honest differences of opinion. A majority of the Senate wanted an all-civilian atomic commission, with the military held to a...
Control of fissionable material, facilities, mines, research and applications will be vested in a five-man commission-civilians all. Chief amendment won by the House: the death penalty for those who give away atomic information if there is clear "intent to injure the U.S."
"Nationalism is a fine thing, but a luxury we can no longer afford. Perhaps we will fare better if we are not tied to a defeated Italy, but guided by an international commission-and it may keep out Tito and his Communism."
Russia's Andrei Gromyko said flatly to the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission: "The United States proposals in their present form cannot be accepted in any way by the Soviet Union, either as a whole or in separate parts." Gromyko explained that Russia wants a treaty by which...
4. On the Commission on Colonials and Imperialism: That the IUS (1) Ask the U. S. to remove troops from China; and (2) That troops (a) should be withdrawn from countries where they are being held for political purposes, and (b) should refrain from political activity in countries where they...