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...committing themselves very deeply. As a Soviet delegate was careful to point out, Russia in its favorable vote was supporting "the principle of international cooperation," rather than specific proposals. The international agency is still on the diplomats' drawing boards. Years of negotiations may pass before the Russians actually consent to join it, if they ever do. The international conference is still more than six months away and in any event cannot obligate its participants to take specific actions...
...figure in the negotiations, said: "I can swear no such payments were made . . . Mr. Onassis made his offer directly to His Majesty's government ... So whom would he bribe, or why? Suppose he bribed two, even three men. The agreement still needed the Cabinet's unanimous consent . . . Certainly Onassis couldn't bribe men like these with a million dollars...
...nine talk-filled years, the U.N. has attempted to work out a plan for disarmament and the prohibition of atomic weapons. Though Russia unceasingly proclaimed its desire to "ban the bomb," it would not consent to a foolproof system of inspection and controls. Then, five weeks ago, Russia's Vishinsky quickened a few U.N. pulses by hinting that Russia might agree to a British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate...
...with its national interests. In this country, for instance, a revision of the UN Charter would need Senate approval like any other treaty. And a body which almost passed the Bricker Amendment would never conceivably ratify an agreement by which U.S. troops could be committed without this country's consent...
...Democratic skeptic expected the Republican Administration to be an easy taskmaster to businessmen, Barnes has proved to be quite the opposite. He inherited 136 antitrust cases from the previous Administration, so far has disposed of 76 (only ten by dismissal). Barnes's favorite technique is to reach consent decrees with antitrust offenders (38 to date), thus avoiding long and costly court fights...