United States policy at the United Nations with respect to the regulation of armaments and collective security: the international control of atomic energy; regulation of conventional armaments; efforts toward agreements placing armed forces at the disposal of the Security Council 1

1. Continued from Foreign Relations, 1948, vol. i, Part 1, pp. 311505. For documentation on aspects of United States policy with respect to atomic energy other than international control, see pp. 419 ff. For documentation on United States national security policy, see pp. 249 ff. Regarding the international control of atomic energy, see Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield, 1941–1952, volume ii of A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969).


[34] Position Paper Approved by the Executive Committee on Regulation of Armaments

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[37] The Acting United States Representative at the United Nations (Ross) to the Secretary of State

501.BC Armaments/6–2949: Telegram


[42] Memorandum of Conversation, by Messrs. Frederick H. Osborn and R. Gordon Arneson

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[48] The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State

501.A Summaries/7–2149: Telegram


[51] Notes on the First Meeting of the Sponsoring Powers, Lake Success, New York, August 9, 1949, 11:30 a. m.

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[52] Report by the Commission for Conventional Armaments to the Security Council

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[53] Notes on the Second Meeting of the Sponsoring Powers, Lake Success, New York, August 16, 1949, 10:30 a. m.

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[54] Notes on the Third Meeting of the Sponsoring Powers, Lake Success, New York, August 19, 1949, 10:30 a. m.

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[58] Notes on the Fifth Meeting of the Sponsoring Powers, Lake Success, New York, September 1, 1949

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[60] Position Paper Prepared in the Department of State

501.BB/9–2649


[62] The Secretary of State to the United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin)

501.BC/9–749: Telegram


[63] Notes on the Sixth Meeting of the Sponsoring Powers, Lake Success, New York, September 8, 1949

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