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...fact emerged last week as plain and sharp as a good photograph: no disarmament agreement is going to be signed in London's Lancaster House this summer. Valerian Zorin. Soviet delegate, took care of that at the 61st gathering this year around the green table. To the four Western nations, this was the moment for Zorin to reply to John Foster Dulles' proposals for aerial zones of inspection (TIME, Aug. 12). But. after complaining that the Dulles proposal failed to include all U.S. bases in Asia and Africa, Zorin returned to two of the most tired themes...
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...
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...
...Europe. Stassen, the complaint ran, had pulled a diplomatic blooper, and the European allies were miffed. The blooper: Stassen, after promising Western partners that he would consult with them before making any specific disarmament proposals to the Russians, had launched into private talks with Russia's disarmament representative, Valerian Zorin (architect of the Russian takeover of Czechoslovakia...
...Approximately Equal." The U.S. gave the Russians the opening for their move earlier this year by intimating that it would settle for one piece of sky at a time. Harold E. Stassen, the President's Disarmament Adviser, informally suggested to Russia's representative, Valerian Zorin, that the powers might begin by trying out aerial inspection in 1) a patch of Europe between Amsterdam and Leningrad, and 2) a North Pacific zone including most of Alaska and a small piece of Siberia. Last week Zorin formally proposed a larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast...