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Disarmament. In London, at week-long meetings of the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee, U.S. Delegate Harold Stassen spelled out for Russia's Valerian Zorin a two-point U.S. plan for ending the H-bomb race as a "first step" toward overall arms reduction...
...Stassen still had a way to go. In Washington, Secretary of State Dulles made clear that the U.S. would not (as Ike had suggested) accept a simple suspension of nuclear tests unless accompanied by general agreement for a cutoff of nuclear-weapon production (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). There were still disagreements among the allies about some other aspects of the U.S. plan. The British would like to see the cutoff date put off until they can build up their stockpile of bombs. Some NATO countries-France, Belgium, The Netherlands and West Germany-are none too happy over being included...
...Disarmament Subcommittee doggedly assembled in London last March, most observers conceded it no more chance than any other of the innumerable futile sessions the West had held with the Russians over the past eleven years. Europeans remarked sagely that the Eisenhower Administration had found an ideal job for Harold Stassen-all talk and no action. But the slow recognition that this time the Russians might be serious* has made everyone suddenly cautious. The Russians had accepted, at least in broadest principle, Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection and offered for the first time to admit international observers to Russian territory...
Last week Stassen methodically filled in the details of the U.S. plan in London, day by day. He proposed an immediate cut of U.S. and Russian forces to 2,500,-ooo each (an old figure that both sides have used at one time or another). A second-and third-stage cut bringing troop strength down to 1,700,000 could be left to the future and would depend on "political conditions...
What conditions? Russia's Valerian Zorin wanted to know. The unification of Germany, for example, said Stassen. Next Stassen suggested that each state make up a list of arms that it would be willing to set aside. The lists should be negotiated until each side felt the trade was even, then the arms sequestered under the eyes of international inspectors in special depots in each nation's home territory (thus if one side broke its word, the other would have quick access to its own arms). A year after sequestration, the arms would be disposed of or converted...