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...Stassen Speaks on Disarmament...
LONDON, May 27--Harold E. Stassen told the U.N. subcommittee today the United States is ready to meet Russia halfway on terms for a partial arms reduction agreement...
...President's warning came just before the London talks recessed until next week and Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen flew home to report fresh progress toward "partial disarmament" providing for a cutback in arms, manpower and defense costs. Three days before Stassen's arrival, Secretary of State Dulles had also moved in to mod erate any undue optimism about the talks that Happy Harold Stassen might generate. The Soviet proposals, Dulles granted at his news conference, marked "a certain measure of progress." But the Administration would make no disarmament moves-which could involve the "very existence...
Such a proposal has been suggested by disarmament representative Harold Stassen and was originally proposed by Anthony Eden at the Geneva Conference of 1955. Though the plan would involve fundamental revisions of our European policy, these changes will probably be forced upon the administration either now or later. Stassen's plan calls for a "test tube" area of disarmament and inspection in West and East Germany and the neighboring satellites. If accepted, this neutralization plan can not only alleviate much tension in Central Europe but would also provide a proving ground for realistic control by inspection...
...disadvantages of the Stassen plan from the West's point of view result principally from short-term problems. Germany's NATO contributions would be sacrificed; however, the Federal Republic presently plans to contribute only one third of its original troop commitment. Since it is now committed to NATO membership, the Adenauer government would have to revise its foregn policy extensively. But if the United States invited German discussion on European disarmament, Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union could start changing its policy without excessively losing face before the Social Democrats...