Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denver last week, Presidential Assistant Harold Stassen reported to President Eisenhower on the U.N. deliberations on the limitations of arms (TIME, Sept. 12). Said he: "The odds are that the General Assembly, including the Soviet Union, will accept the President's proposal...
...optimism, said Stassen, was based upon these grounds: first, the Russians were asking intelligent questions at the U.N. about the President's call for an exchange of military blueprints and aerial inspection, "the kind we might be asking if we were considering a proposal by them"; second, the devastation of an atomic war and the peaceful use of atomic energy present "extreme alternatives...
...testing time, Stassen concluded, would come during the tenth General Assembly, starting this week, with a decision likely before Christmas...
...Delegate Stassen spelled out the details of the U.S. plan: "The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. will exchange all data relative to military forces and installations ... in progressive steps as mutually agreed upon . . . Among the elements of information ... are ... weapons and delivery systems . . . transportation and telecommunications, armed forces structure and positioning...
...Stassen proposed that less sensitive data be exchanged, and verified by an operative network of controls, before the U.S. and the Russians proceed. "Arrangements will be made for the posting of on-the-spot observers with operating land, sea and air forces, at their supporting installations, and at key locations as necessary . . . Aerial reconnaissance will be conducted by each inspecting country on an unrestricted but monitored basis . . . Each inspecting country will utilize its own aircraft . . . Liaison personnel of the country being inspected will be aboard...