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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...
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...
...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...
...course of discussing technical questions, Stassen had handed Zorin an informal working paper which detailed a highly tentative U.S. proposal for setting up zones of aerial inspection, one of which included Western Europe. When British and French diplomats-to say nothing of the apprehensive West Germans-heard of this, they were quick to file complaints...
...little down out of the clouds and more in the realm of political give and take. And in this atmosphere it will have the best chance to date of proving whatever promise it may have. If Western European governments were edgy about Stassen's private meetings with Zorin, they stood firm and tough in the face of Russian-inspired propaganda on the horrors of the H-bomb. The President of the U.S. was hopeful enough about the disarmament talks to make them a major effort of his Administration, and he felt tough enough about them to fight...