DISARMAMENT AGENCY HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 2180 A BILL TO ESTABLISH A UNITED STATES DISARMAMENT SEP 1961 DIVISION 74094 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1961 CONTENTS Clark, Joseph S., U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania_ Eaton, Frederick M., former Ambassador to the Ten-Nation Con- Gardner, Trevor, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research 148 189 Kastenmeier, Hon. Robert W., Second Congressional District, Wisconsin. Larson, Arthur, World Rule of Law Center, Duke University. Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Levering, Samuel, chairman, executive council, Friends Committee on Lodge, Henry Cabot, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. 115 82 37, 78 Persons, Sandford Z., United World Federalists. Pomerance, Mrs. Josephine W., Women's International League for Schutz, Robert R., Lobby for Peace of Northern California... Smeltzer, Ralph E., General Brotherhood Board of the Church of the Wadsworth, James J., former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations- Wing, Mrs. Wilson, Maryland Committee for a Nuclear Test Treaty. Memorandum on useful byproducts for basic knowledge, based on research on detection of nuclear explosions by electromagnetic Information on VELA research program. 97 Insertions in the record-Continued Chart on principal organizations in executive branch of U.S. Govern- ment involved in disarmament research- - - - - Memorandum on relationship of the Director of USIA to the President Text of Senate Concurrent Resolution 37, 87th Congress, 1st session - - Notes on the evolution of the Democratic Advisory Council proposal- Text of letter to the President from 30 Members of Congress concerning List of cosponsors of Disarmament Agency bill.. Statement by Andrew J. Biemiller, director, department of legisla- Resolution of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.. Statement by David C. Williams, director of research and educa- Letter from Dr. and Mrs. W. Wallace Cayard, Wheeling, W. Va - - Statement by Emil Mazy, secretary-treasurer, United Auto Workers - - Letter from Clark M. Eichelberger, American Association for the United Letter from John G. Darley, executive officer, American Psychological Association, and enclosed letter from Charles E. Osgood, director, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois- Statement by Hon. Seymour Halpern, Fourth Congressional District, DISARMAMENT AGENCY MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1961 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a.m., in room 4221, New Senate Office Building, Senator J.W. Fulbright (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Fulbright, Sparkman, Humphrey, Symington, Wiley, Hickenlooper, Aiken, Carlson, and Williams. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The purpose of the meeting this morning is to hear representatives from the executive branch on S. 2180, the Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security. This bill would create a new U.S. Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security to handle matters relating to disarmament, including negotiations, research, recommendations to the President and Secretary of State, and certain information functions. This legislation was requested by the President in a communication of June 29, 1961, and introduced by the chairman of the Disarmament Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations on the same day. After a brief sojourn with another committee, it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations on August 3. I ask that there be included in the record at this point (1) the text of S. 2180; (2) the communication from the President, together with its enclosure which is a letter from Mr. McCloy to the President; and (3) a letter to the chairman of this committee from Mr. McCloy, dated August 2, 1961. (The documents referred to follow :) [S. 2180, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To establish a United States Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-SHORT TITLE, PURPOSE, AND DEFINITIONS SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Disarmament Act for World Peace and Security". PURPOSE SEC. 2. An ultimate goal of the United States is a world which is free from the scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of armaments; in which the use of force has been subordinated to the rule of law; and in which international adjustments to a changing world are achieved peacefully. It is the purpose of this Act to provide impetus toward this goal by creating a new agency of peace to deal with the problem of disarmament. 1 |