Archive Report
Archive Report
Renewal of General Disarmament Talks
New Attempt to Stop East-West Arms Race
Afresh start on the wearisome and so far unproductive task of forging a comprehensive international agreement on arms limitation is about to get under way at Geneva. An independently established group of 10 nations, evenly divided between West and East,1 will take up on March 15 the job that a subcommittee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission laid down in 1957 in the face of persisting deadlock.2 Progress made after two months, and problems still unsolved both at the new general disarmament conference and at the separate nuclear test ban conference at Geneva, will doubtless come up for review at the Big Four summit meeting opening in Paris on May 16. Disarmament thus is ...