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...Nationalist Government made eleventh-hour efforts for peace. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek proposed a five-man supercommittee (headed by U.S. Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart) to work out a plan for a coalition government with the Communists. The Communists agreed to participate on the committee if they were left undisturbed in North China. Since the Communist grip on North China -and on the main railroad arteries-was a major issue between Yenan and Nanking, this condition was not so simple as it seemed...
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...
...Hanrahan will probably be confirmed by the Senate after a fight in committee. It will then be up to the five-man SEC to elect a chairman. Wall Streeters guessed that the job would go to James J. Caffrey, who has been with the SEC since 1936, has been a commissioner for 14 months...
Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe introduced a bill in the House calling for Government development and control of atomic energy. The bill would 1) set up a five-man civilian board to conduct atomic research on an annual budget of $3,500,000 and 2) supervise operations of Canada's three uranium plants at Eldorado Mine, N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left...
...last minute the Senate had added two minor amendments. Otherwise the committee's recommendations (TIME, April 22) rode through untouched. A five-man, full-time civilian commission would have complete and sweeping powers over every phase of atomic research, production, engineering and application. A military liaison committee, a nine-man advisory board of civilians appointed by the President, and a bi-partisan congressional committee would act as a check and conscience on the operations of the Atomic Commission. The whole bill was geared to mesh with any future international control adopted...