501.BB/12–146: Telegram
Senator Austin to the
Acting Secretary of State
us urgent
New York, December 1,
1946—6:30 p.m.
[Received 8:28 p.m.]
895. Following proposed resolution on disarmament received from Secretary and
submitted to Committee I, November 30:49
- “1. With a view to strengthening international peace and
security in conformity with the purposes and principles of the
United Nations, the General Assembly recognizes the necessity of
an early general regulation and reduction of armaments.
Accordingly, the General Assembly recommends that the Security
Council give prompt consideration to working out the practical
measures, according to their priority, which are essential to
provide for the general regulation and reduction of armaments
pursuant to international treaties and agreements and to assure
that such regulation and reduction will be generally observed by
all participants and not unilaterally by only some of the
participants.
- “2. The General Assembly recognizes that essential to the
general regulation and reduction of armaments is the early
establishment of international control of atomic energy and
other modern technological
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discoveries to ensure their use only for
peaceful purposes. Accordingly, in order to ensure that the
general regulation and reduction of armaments are directed
towards the major weapons of modern warfare and not merely
towards the minor weapons the General Assembly recommends that
the Security Council give first consideration to the report
which the Atomic Energy Commission will make to the Security
Council before December 31, 1946, and facilitate the progress of
the work of that commission.
- “3. The General Assembly further recognizes that essential to
the general regulation and reduction of armaments is the
provision of practical and effective safeguards by way of
inspection and other means to protect complying states against
the hazards of violations and evasions. Accordingly, the General
Assembly recommends to the Security Council that it give prompt
consideration to the working out of proposals to provide such
practical and effective safeguards in connection with the
control of atomic energy and other limitation or regulation of
armaments.
- “4. The General Assembly calls upon the governments of all
states to render every possible assistance to the Security
Council and the Atomic Energy Commission in order to promote the
establishment of international peace and collective security,
with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and
economic resources.”
