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...that any agreement could do to relieve the Communist-fanned fear of rising radioactivity from the fallout of surface blasts. Yet for all the good it did, the U.S. might have saved its breath. The Soviet Union's immediate reaction: a flat "rejected." Cried Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin: "A conspiracy. It is unacceptable, of course." Moscow's reaction should have surprised no one. Month after month Western diplomats have floated into Geneva on floods of hope only to be dashed against inflexible Soviet demands. President Eisenhower's cardinal rule is that a ban on tests...
...anyone expect much on disarmament? The hopeful signs were few. Delegates from the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union have been meeting for a year in Geneva to negotiate a treaty banning nuclear-weapons tests. Early last week there was a nicker of progress. Soviet Conference Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin launched into a 45-minute attack on towering (6 ft. 4 in.) U.S. Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data on the difficulties of long-range detection of underground nuclear tests was a clear attempt "to throw the talks into...
...Tsarapkin's "concession," hedged with qualifications, came at the 132nd session in Geneva. Such inchworm progress has been characteristic of all postwar disarmament negotiations. In 14 years of dickering so complex that even the participants have trouble keeping the record straight, East and West have achieved only one concrete measure-a temporary suspension of nuclear testing, which expires, so far as the U.S. is concerned, Dec. 31. The U.S. is talking about resuming underground tests. And France made clear last week at the U.N. that unless "the first three atomic powers renounce their nuclear armament," it intends to explode...
...Shouldn't we now be packing our bags?" demanded U.S. Delegate James J. Wadsworth of Semyon K. Tsarapkin, the Soviet negotiator...
...Tsarapkin replied that the question of packing bags was up to the West but there need be no talk of failure if the West switched to a "more realistic attitude...