501.BC Armaments/5–2147: Telegram
The Acting United States Representative at the United Nations (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
restricted
New York, May 21, 1947—8
p.m.
494. Text of USSR proposal introduced on May 21 on plan of work of CCA follows:
- (1)
- The establishment of general principles for the reduction of armaments and armed forces and for the determination of the minimum requirements of each state in all kinds of armaments and armed forces (land, sea and air), taking into account also the prohibition of atomic and other weapons adaptable to mass destruction.
- (2)
- The establishment of general principles which should govern the reduction of war production and the determination of the maximum capacity of war production for each state, having also in view the permission of the production and use of atomic energy only for peaceful purposes.
- (3)
- The extension of the principles set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 to the states non-members of the UN.
- (4)
- The establishment of limits on individual kinds of armaments and armed forces for each individual country, on the basis of principles stated in paragraph 1.
- (5)
- The establishment of limits on various kinds of war production for each individual country on the basis of principles stated in paragraph 2.
- (6)
- The determination of the method and time-limits for the adaptation of the level of armaments and armed forces as well as of war production to the limits stated in paragraphs 4 and 5 for each individual country.
- (7)
- The problems of location of armed forces and the question of the reduction of the network of military, naval and air bases.
- (8)
- Measures on the prohibition of the use of non-military industries and non-military means of transport for military purposes above the limits set forth in paragraphs 4 and 5.
- (9)
- The organization and the method of establishment of a system of control of the fulfillment of measures on the general regulation [Page 477] and reduction of armaments and armed forces, as well as of war industry and war production, taking into account the coordination of the above-mentioned system of control with the system of control of use of atomic energy.
- (10)
- The working out of a draft convention.
Johnson