30, The U, S. supported a French-UK proposal of June 11, 1954 in the
Disarmament Sub-Committee which called for a phased approach to
disarmament through successive stages and for nuclear disarmament
The proposal
phased with reduction of conventional arms and forces,
included a proviso that states would regard themselves as prohibited from
using nuclear weapons except in accordance with the UN Charter.
31.
In late June 1954, after consideration of the matter with his top officials,
President Eisenhower adopted an interdepartmental recommendation that
the United States should not at that time agree to a test moratorium, but
that disarmament policy review should be continued and expedited.
32. After initial rejection of the Anglo-French proposal, the USSR, on
September 30, 1954, announced at the UN General Assembly that it would
accept that proposal as a basis for a draft international convention on
disarmament,
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33. Cn November 4, 1954 the General Assembly unanimously called for
“further efforts ... to reach agreement, '' by the Disarmament Committee,
34,
On November 23, 1954, the Communist World Peace Council proposed
35.
Cn February 23,
that the great powers reach "immediate agreement on the banning ofall
experimental explosions of atomic and hydrogen bombs," and combined this
with a demand that governments undertake never to use nuclear weapons
whatever may be the pretext,!!
1955, President Eisenhower at a news conference
stated that the United States sees nothing to be gained by a separate ban on
thermonuclear tests outside of a decent and proper disarmament.
36. In the resumed meetings of the UN Sub-Committee the U. S. during
March 1955 called attention to the difficulties that had arisen in "accounting
fully for all past production of nuclear materials" which "raises doubt that
presently foreseeable plans can compietely guarantee the elimination of
all nuclear weapons,
37. On March 8, 1955, the U. &., U. K., France and Canada submitted
a proposal to the UN Disarmament Subcommittee on the timing or phasing
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of a disarmament program; which was not accepted by the USSR.
38,
On March 12,
1955 the US, UK, France and Canada submitted to the
UN Disarmament Commission Subcommittee a joint draft resolution for
- the UN General Assembly on the principles to govern reductions in armed
forces and conventional armaments; which was not accepted by the USSR.
39.
To undertake a complete review of disarmament problems and to
levelop an approach taking account of the growing technological problems
‘hat had arisen, the President on March 19, 1955 appointed Harold E.
Stassen as Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament and directed
‘hat special studies of basic U. ©. policy on the matter be made, utilizing
men both in and out of Government,
40.
On April 21, 1955, the U. S., UK, France and Canada submitted to
the UN Disarmament Commission Subcommittee a joint draft resolution for
‘he UN General Assembly on the principles of disarmament controls: which
was rejected by the USSR.
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