Editorial Note
On August 12, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France introduced a Supplementary Tripartite Paper on Force Levels (UN doc. DC/12) in the United Nations Disarmament Commission. A working document proposing the limitation of arms by type and quantity, UN doc. DC/12 was intended to supplement UN doc. DC/10 submitted by the three nations on May 28. (Regarding UN doc. DC/10, see the memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State to the President, May 28, page 954.) For the text of UN doc. DC/12 and the statement concerning it delivered in the Disarmament Commission on August 11 by Benjamin V. Cohen, the Deputy United States Representative, see Department of State Bulletin, August 20, 1952, pages 290–293. UN doc. DC/12 is also printed in Documents on Disarmament, 1945–1959, volume I, pages 370–372.