Mr. Hall said he would recommend location of the permanent
headquarters for IAEA in the U.S. and as a second choice, Geneva.
The Commissioners indicated that they agreed with this position,
After further discussion, the Commission:
Requested that a letter be sent to the Department
of State setting forth the Commission's position that
the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy
Agency should be located in the U.S,
8.
Discussion of.OFEC
Mr. Hall reported on:a‘: recent meeting of a committee of.
the Organization for European Economic Cooperation which.had.
been established to study the possibilities of cooperation in the
field of nuclear power. He pointed out that OFEC had originally
been established by seventeen European countries to coordinate
Marshall Plan aid and later had been made a permanent
organization with the U.K. and U.S. as associate members.
For
the past four or five years a special committee of OFEC has been
concerned with the development of conventional power, and recently
OEEC had agreed to establish a special committee to investigate
the possibilities of cooperation in the field of nuclear power.
At this point V.r. Vance left the meeting.
9.
London Disarmament Conference
Mr. Gardner reported on a U.K, - French disarmament
proposal and also on a plan presented to the London Disarmament
Conference by Mr. Stassen on April 3. Mr. Foster referred toa
cable outlining the disarmament plan presented by Mr. Stagsen
and said that the AEC’s comments on parts of the plan had been
invited. Mr. Foster said that he recommended that the Commission
indicate to the President's Special Disarmament Committee, AEC's
general concurrence in the Stassen proposal.
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