PEICTAG USSCILY expedient to utilize nomlear Cerants for disarmament and becaure the lenublicans haa to take ¢ svand onee the icosue had become campaifpn anmunition. ven bhough l.oscow maintained that wtevensor's proposal for < test ban was getting increasing pom'ar and seientifie su»vort in / erica, it said that he and his strategists are using tre issue nrimerily in a quest for votes, Ae envisaged by Communist cormentatorr, the Administration has now been caught between the need to attract voters to its side and the need for continuing the arms race, iloscow called the test issue one of the most vulnereble points of ‘enublican policy. Radio corments underlined "the tremendous public interest in test cessation both in . erica and in the worJd at large." COlMURIG? CHIRA Cormunist dina has treated the subject in ways that surcort the Soviet stand on disarnament and atomic wearons and has sourht to exploit Eisenhower's vosition largely to prove that the lnited “tates is unwilling to undertake disarma- ment anc is ignoring the hazards of nuclerr war end nuclear tests, end public oninion. At the same time, both the ‘i viet and Conmunist Chinece exploitation of the issue make the noint that the current low. discussion is a concession to the concern of the U.S. public over the issue we'eh has demanced a discucs‘on in the course of the election campaircn,