Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, National Security Affairs, Volume II, Part 2

Editorial Note

On April 24, the United States introduced in the United Nations Disarmament Commission a proposal on Essential Principles for a Disarmament Program. The proposal was circulated as UN doc. DC/C.1/1. For text, see Documents on Disarmament, 1945–1959, volume I, pages 357–358. For statements made by Benjamin V. Cohen, Deputy United States Representative on the Disarmament Commission, in Committee I of the Commission regarding the proposal and the general United States position, see Department of State Bulletin, May 12, 1952, pages 752–753. For certain remarks by Cohen before Committee II of the Commission on April 25, see ibid., pages 753–755.