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Vhat the President proposed was motivated solely by desire to find
a way out of the atomic dilemma which had fastened itself upon the vorld
and thereby to lift the darkest cloud overhanging peace.
His proposal was
a product of bold vision yet it had the great virtue of simplicity.
It
was above all else an easily workable plan, practicable and uninvolved.
As you know, in the months following President Eisenhower's
proposal, discussions were undertaken among those nations having either
developed resources of nuclear raw materials or advanced atomic energy
programs, and on December 4, 1954, the General Assembly of the United
Nations by unanimous vote endorsed the proposal to create an International
Atomic Energy Agency.
In late February of this year, representatives of 12 nations met in
Vashington.
After some months of earnest, cooperative labor, they progyred.
the draft statute which will be before you.
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Ve all recognize that this statute, or charter, is not a panacea for
all the ills of the world.
It will not within any precisely measured time,
turn all deserts into green pastures.
necessity to labor for his daily bread.
It will not relieve man of the
It will not usher in the
millennium.
However, the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency
under the conditions envisaged by the draft statute will do these things:
It will accelerate the application of the peaceful uses of atomic
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energy everywhere, reaching the uttermost parts of the earth.
It will divert important amounts of fissionable material from atomic
bomb arsenals to uses of benefit to mankind and those amounts will steadily