88. Editorial Note
The United Nations General Assembly at its 559th plenary meeting, December 16, approved Resolution 914 (X) by a vote of 56 to 7. This resolution on disarmament evolved from a draft resolution entitled “Regulation, Limitation and Balanced Reduction of All Armed Forces and All Armaments; Conclusion of an International Convention (Treaty) on the Reduction of Armaments and the Prohibition of Atomic, Hydrogen and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction: Report of the Disarmament Commission,” which the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France submitted to the First Committee (Political and Security) at its 801st meeting on December 2.
This resolution became U.N. document A/C.1/L.150 in the First Committee and was subsequently revised twice to incorporate the views of other delegations. A/C.1/L.150/Rev.2 was introduced by the four Western powers at the 810th meeting of the First Committee on December 12 and was adopted at the 811th meeting of the Committee [Page 245] on the same day by a vote of 53 to 5. Resolution 914 (X) approved by the General Assembly on December 16 contained the same wording as the draft resolution approved by the First Committee.
An important feature of Resolution 914 (X) was paragraph 1(b), which urged that the states concerned and particularly those on the Subcommittee of the Disarmament Commission:
“(b) Should, as initial steps, give priority to early agreement on and implementation of:
“(i) Such confidence-building measures as the plan of Mr. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, for exchanging military blueprints and mutual aerial inspection, and the plan of Mr. Bulganin, Prime Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for establishing control posts at strategic centres,
“(ii) All such measures of adequately safeguarded disarmament as are now feasible.”
The debates in the First Committee are in Official Records of General Assembly, Tenth Session, agenda items 17 and 66, pages 213–296. General Assembly Resolution 914 (X) is printed in Yearbook of the United Nations, 1955, pages 12–13; Department of State Bulletin, January 9, 1956, page 63; and Documents on Disarmament, 1945–1959, volume I, pages 583–586.