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600. Memorandum From Farley to Herter1

Washington, September 23, 1960
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SUBJECT

  • Today’s Soviet Disarmament Proposals

I have compared the Soviet proposals on disarmament introduced today in the General Assembly with the proposals of June 2.

The only change of any significance is the shift of the proposal for reduction of U.S. and Soviet armed forces to 1.7 million, from para. 2 of the second stage to para. 2 of the first stage. Corresponding paragraphs concerning the duties of inspectors and other control measures have been shifted from para. 3 of the second stage to the end of para. 8 of the first stage.

The present sub-paragraphs III (f) and (g) have been moved up from their former locations in para. 3 of the second stage and para. 8 of the first stage respectively.

Other changes are even more trivial. They consist of:

(a) modifying the lead-in language to refer to the governments of states “participating in negotiations on disarmament” rather than “members of the Ten Nation Committee on Disarmament set up in 1959”.

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(b) Deleting the underlined words in the following phrase from sub-paragraph III (d): “each party to the Treaty will undertake to give the inspectors and inspection teams timely and unrestricted access within its territory.

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(c) Adding the word “scientific” to “peaceful purposes” everytime the launching of rockets is referred to.

cc—

Mr. Merchant

Mr. Bohlen

Mr. Smith

Mr. Kohler

Mr. Berding

Mr. Wilcox

Ambassador Wadsworth

  1. Source: Analysis of new Soviet disarmament proposals. No classification marking. 2 pp. NARA, RG 59, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1772.↩