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...desire for an immediate showdown vote on the U.S. plan for atomic control, Bernard Baruch last week found a majority of the twelve nations in the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission against him. Thereupon, after months of inflexible diplomacy, he made his first concession...
...When Baruch, with visible pride in his role, launched his plan last June, he seemed to have the whole non-Soviet world with him. But it soon became apparent that the A.E.C. was not getting anywhere. The Russians put up a plan of their own (completely unsatisfactory to the West), and simply dug in behind it. The U.S. blueprint was sound and sensible, but it was, after all, only a means to an end: effective atomic control. Baruch seemed to consider the slightest suggestion of change in the plan as an outrage and a sacrilege...
Troop Figures. Secretary Byrnes, making his first appearance at this U.N. meeting, did much to clear the air. He said that the U.S. would not submit atomic information to any hastily devised agency, but would yield everything when a world control system along Mr. Baruch's lines had been set up. He also cut the ground from under Russia's agitation for a troop census by giving the figure on U.S. forces abroad: 550,000. Most of them, he added, were in occupation areas. There were 96,000 in the Philippines, only 19,000 in China. Russia...
...vote, first taken on an atomic plan since the commission took up the problem last June 14, represented a partial victory for American delegate Bernard M. Baruch, who had persistently demanded a yes-or-no ballot on his far-reaching proposal...
...Baruch finally yielded and agreed to a Canadian compromise which provided for acceptance in principle and called upon a working committee to make the wording conform to the arms reduction resolution recently passed by the General Assembly...