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Working out inspection provisions acceptable to both the United States and Russia is still the principal stumbling block holding up test ban and disarmament agreements, according to participants in panel discussion of last September's Pugwash conference in Britain...
American scientists have met with their Soviet colleagues at the Stowe and Pugwash conferences, and at numerous professional conventions; they know one another personally and by reputation. It would be ludicrous and somewhat repugnant for Mr. Zorin to accuse scientists of this stature of running errands for the C.I.A. Their intellectual honesty is as well known as the U-2 fiasco, and the world would give less credence to Soviet suspicions if they were directed at reputable scientists...
...Whatever type of disarmament we get, if we continue to wait, will be worse than that which we could get today." Louis B. Sohn, John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, said yesterday. Sohn is one of four Harvard professors among the 25 Americans who attended the sixth International Pugwash Conference in Moscow...
While the Moscow gathering has the formal title of "Pugwash Conference," it will not have the financial sponsorship of Cyrus Eaton, the railroad magnate who paid for many previous meetings. "We have had a friendly parting, but a parting nonetheless, with Mr. Eaton," remarked Louis B. Sohn, professor of Law, who is attending as an authority on world organization...
...result of the conference may be a decision to change the name of future gatherings. The current name is derived from Eaton's estate in Nova Scotia, where the first meeting was held in 1957. Three members of the U.S. Pugwash Committee have declared their intention to propose such a change, because "Since Mr. Eaton has continued to play an active and controversial role in political affairs, the scientists have felt that his continuing support of their conference may place them in the wrong light." Eaton was recently awarded the Lenin Peace Prize...