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    | THE UNITED STATES PROGRAM |
    | FOR GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT |
    | IN A PEACEFUL WORLD |
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                        Whose Side Are They On?
                          by John F. McManus

    In the interest of peace, many Americans have been persuaded to
    support disarmament programs and to create as a substitute for each
    nation's military a United Nations Peace Force. Most feel certain
    that their own rights and the independence of their nation would in
    no way be placed in jeopardy. But there is a vital question few
    seem willing or able to ask: Who would be left to restrain the
    all-powerful United Nations?

    For his Secretaries of State and Defense, President John F.
    Kennedy selected Dean Rusk and Robert S. McNamara. Each was a
    member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, a
    private organization formed in 1921 for the purpose of bringing
    about a one-world government.

    Only nine months into his administration - on September 25. 1961,
    to be precise - Mr. Kennedy travelled to UN headquarters in New
    York to present a proposal entitled Freedom From War: The United
    States Program For General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful
    World. The work of the Rusk-led State Department, with the willing
    acquiescence of the McNamara-led Defense Department, the proposal
    was published as "Department of State Publication 7277."

    In his remarks before the UN, President Kennedy asked for a
    commitment from all nations "not to an arms race, but to a peace
    race - to advance together step by step, stage by stage, until
    general and complete disarmament has been achieved." He did not
    get any such commitment, yet the United States embarked on the
    Kennedy-launched program.

    Freedom From War (or "7277" as it was frequently called) proposes
    three stages of disarmament ending with the transfer of the armed
    forces of our nation to the United Nations. As Senator Joseph
    Clark of Pennsylvania approvingly reminded his colleagues in a
    Senate speech on March 1, 1962, this program is "the fixed,
    determined and approved policy of the government of the United
    States."

    A reading of the document itself confirms that disarmament "would
    proceed to a point where no state would have the military power
    to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force...."
    In other words, the only significant military power left in the
    world would be the United Nations.

    The provisions of the treacherous proposal would actually leave our
    nation defenseless before the UN, and before any other nation that
    didn't similarly disarm. And it would place the UN's superior
    military power in the hands of the UN's Undersecretary for
    Political and Security Council Affairs, the overseer of all UN
    military activity. This post, by virtue of a secret agreement
    concluded at the founding of the UN (an arrangement later confirmed
    by an astonished former UN Secretary General named Trygve Lie), has
    always been held by a communist. The man who holds it today, the
    14th communist in succession, is Vasiliy S. Safronchuk of the
    Soviet Union. Unless our leaders are stopped, they will succeed in
    turning over our military forces to the United Nations where they
    will be controlled by a communist.

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    | Since the UN was created, there have been 14 Undersecrtaries |
    | for Political and Security Council Affairs. All have been |
    | communists, and all but one have come from the Soviet Union: |
    | |
    | 1946-1949 Arkady Sobolev (USSR) |
    | 1949-1953 Konstantin Zinchenko (USSR) |
    | 1953-1954 Ilya Tchernychev (USSR) |
    | 1954-1957 Dragoslav Protitch (Yugoslavia) |
    | 1958-1960 Anatoly Dobrynin (USSR) |
    | 1960-1962 Georgy Arkadev (USSR) |
    | 1962-1963 E. D. Kiselev (USSR) |
    | 1963-1965 V. P. Suslov (USSR) |
    | 1965-1968 Alcxei E. Nesterenko (USSR) |
    | 1968-1973 Leonid N. Kutakov (USSR) |
    | 1973-1978 Arkady N. Shevchenko (USSR) |
    | 1978-1981 Mikhail D. Sytenko (USSR) |
    | 1981-1986 Viacheslav A. Ustinov (USSR) |
    | 1987- Vasiliy S. Safronchuk (USSR) |
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    Subverting Our Sovereignty

    Are our leaders really implementing this plan? Yes, they are! The
    Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is part of it; the treaty banning the use
    of outer space for nuclear weapons is part of it; the Nuclear
    Non-Proliferation Treaty is part of it; and so is the Intermediate
    Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, signed by President Reagan and Soviet
    leader Gorbachev and formally ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1988.

    When Freedom From War was first made public, many startled
    Americans tried to obtain a copy. It was quickly declared "out of
    print' by federal authorities. Then, it was superseded in April
    1962 by a "more precise" statement of the U.S. disarmament policy
    in a document entitled Blueprint For the Peace Race: Outline of
    Basic Provisions of a treaty on General and Complete Disarmament in
    a Peaceful World.

    Presented formally to an 18-nation UN Committee on Disarmament
    meeting in Geneva, the foreword to the Blueprint states that it
    doesn't cancel the plans given in Freedom From War. It merely
    "elaborates and extends the proposals of September 25," the date
    that Freedom From War was unveiled at UN headquarters by President
    Kennedy. In complete accord with Freedom From War, the Blueprint
    spells out its overall goal in the third of its three stages: "The
    Parties to the Treaty would progressively strengthen the United
    Nations Peace Force established in Stage II until it had sufficient
    armed forces and armaments so that no state could challenge it."

    When questioned about the commitment of the United States to the
    Blueprint, A. Richard Richstein, General Council of the U.S. Arms
    Control and Disarmament Agency, stated in a May 11, 1982 letter
    that "the United States has never formally withdrawn this
    proposal." In January 1991, William Nary, the official historian of
    the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, confirmed again that "the
    proposal has not been withdrawn." Mr. Nary also confirmed that
    "certain features of it have been incorporated into subsequent
    disarmament agreements."

    In summary, the plan to disarm the United States in favor of an
    all-powerful United Nations Peace Force is unfolding. It calls for
    relinquishing virtually all of our nation's military forces to a UN
    command whose leader, by agreement between the U.S. and the USSR
    during the founding sessions leading to the creation of the UN,
    will always be a communist. In the end, "no state could challenge"
    the communist-led military power of the United Nations.

    This supposed "disarmament" program, therefore, is not as much
    about weapons elimination as it is about weapons distribution and
    control. If the program succeeds, only the UN and those nations
    skirting UN weapons prohibitions will be armed. It is remarkably
    similar to the drive that would outlaw private ownership of
    firearms. If that drive should ever succeed, only the government
    and those who are outlaws would possess guns. Law-abiding citizens
    would be at their mercy in the latter case; law-abiding nations
     would be at the mercy of the UN and outlaw nations in the other.


    Background To This Situation

    How did we get into such a situation? Who are the individuals
    promoting such a suicidal proposal? Why is Congress going along
    instead of repudiating this dangerous program? How do we get out of
    it before it's too late?

    At the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the delegation from
    the United States included a young State Department official named
    Alger Hiss. Widely acclaimed for both his ability and his
    enthusiasm for the world organization, he rose to become the acting
    secretary general of the founding UN conference. As a member of the
    steering and executive committees of the conference, he played a
    major role in drafting the UN Charter. He also helped to staff the
    U.S. delegation and was chosen by his peers for the prestigious
    task of personally transporting the Charter to the President and to
    the Senate for ratification.

    Alger Hiss, however, was later found to have been a secret
    communist, more loyal to a foreign power than to the nation of his
    birth. A 1950 State Department document named 15 other key U.S.
    government officials who were responsible for planning the creation
    of the UN. They, too, were subsequently named as secret communists
    by official agencies.


    Not only was the U.S. represented by a sizeable number of
    communists, our nation's delegation also contained 43 individuals
    who were then or soon would be members of America's leading
    Establishment organization, the privately-run Council on Foreign
    Relations. Alger Hiss himself was both a communist and a CFR member
    as was another U.S. member of the UN planning team, Lauchlin
    Currie. As communists, and as CFR members, they worked diligently
    to bring the world government into existence, and they labored just
    as hard to have the United States a part of it.

    There were, of course, delegations from the USSR and the other
    founding nations. These were made up of communists, socialists,
    one-worlders, and easily manipulated starry-eyed dreamers. All were
    committed to world government at the expense of national
    sovereignty. All wanted the United Nations to be supreme. There
    was to be no more war as soon as the United Nations was given
    sufficient power, especially unchallenged military power, to keep
    the peace.

    For the past 45 years, intense pro-UN propaganda has convinced many
    Americans (and many others as well) that the words "peace" and
    "United Nations" are virtually interchangeable. Anyone who opposes
    the UN risks being labelled a warmonger. Those who support the UN
    customarily find themselves showered with accolades.

    Peace is so universally desired that almost anything seems
    reasonable to achieve it. Proposals to empower the UN with the
    world's dominant military capability have received widespread
    support. At first glance, the idea may seem to have some merit. A
    world police force formed to keep the peace. Wouldn't it be
    wonderful!

    Suppose, however, that the unchallengeable power of the United
    Nations fell into the wrong hands? Suppose it ended up at the
    disposal of Alger Hiss and his comrades? Couldn't it be used to
    impose a tyranny on the rest of mankind? Wouldn't any would-be
    tyrant gravitate to the organization?

    Even if the UN were not run by communists, socialists, and
    one-worlders who despise nationhood, wouldn't the awesome power we
    are talking about be sufficient to corrupt anyone? Who would be
    able to bridle any UN leaders who had been given greater power than
    anyone else on earth?

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    | Five years after the 1945 founding of the United Nations, |
    | official records released by the State Department* identified |
    | the individuals listed below as key U.S. contributors to the |
    | planning for the world organization. Each of the 16 was |
    | subsequently identified in sworn testimony before U.S. |
    | government agencies as a secret communist: |
    | |
    | Alger Hiss |
    | Harry Dexter White |
    | Virginius Frank Coe |
    | Noel Field |
    | Laurence Duggan |
    | Henry Julian Wadleigh |
    | John Carter Vincent |
    | David Weintraub |
    | |
    | Nathan Gregory Silvermaster |
    | Harold Glasser |
    | Victor Perlo |
    | Irving Kaplan |
    | Solomon Adler |
    | Abraham George Silverman |
    | William K.Ullman |
    | William H. Taylor |
    | |
    | * Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation, 1939-1945, |
    | U.S. State Department |
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    Don't Discard Americanism

    It can't be said too often that America is unique. Our nation began
    with the thunderous assertion in the Declaration of Independence
    that "men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
    rights." According to the founding premise of this nation, rights
    come from God, not from government. And the Declaration then
    declared that governments are formed solely "to secure these
    rights." That's all! Secure God-given rights, not provide for
    wants, redistribute the wealth, or make dependent serfs out of the
    people.

    With the marvelous foundation laid in the Declaration, the men who
    formed this unique and wonderful nation then wrote a Constitution
    whose sole purpose was to govern the government, not the people.
    America was expected to be a nation where the government was
    limited by law and the people were limited by freely accepted moral
    codes such as those found in the Ten Commandments.

    Nothing like America had ever existed in all history. And did this
    nation prosper! Millions left the old world to come here penniless
    - not to be cared for but to enjoy freedom and opportunity. America
    became the hope of the world - even for those who were not
    fortunate enough to live within our borders.

    The United Nations, on the other hand, has no place for God. If
    rights don't come from God, the presumption is that they are
    granted by government. The UN actually fosters such a presumption,
    as can be discovered in its International Covenants on Human
    Rights. What must be understood is that a government that presumes
    to grant fundamental rights - which is what the UN does - is a
    government that can suspend them at will. If the "self-evident"
    truths in the Declaration of Independence are canceled or forgotten
    in favor of the UN's ways, all rights given us by our Creator will
    exist only at the pleasure of the United Nations.

    The reality here is that the UN turns the entire American system on
    its head. To consider submitting our nation to the dictates of the
    anti-American, pro-communist and Godless United Nations is
    suicidal. Yet, this is exactly what our leaders have been working
    towards for several decades. Sad to say, it is perfectly obvious
    that this is precisely what President Bush is talking about when he
    repeatedly expresses his desire to create a "new world order."

    Unfortunately, the desire for peace has clouded the vision of many
    otherwise clear-thinking Americans. Many have been persuaded to
    think only of the concept of "peace," but not what kind of peace.
    No one should ever forget that there is the peace of the grave, the
    peace of submission, and the communist peace that consists of no
    opposition to communism. Peace with justice, the goal of anyone
    possessing good will, is as likely under UN domination as is the
    chance that water will flow uphill.

    Whenever thoughts such as these are brought to the attention of
    sensible Americans, enthusiasm for UN-style peace diminishes.
    "Let's keep our independence!" is a common response. "Why should we
    trust others to look after our well-being?" is another. But too
    few are aware of the dangers inherent in an all-powerful world
    government. And too few, therefore, have been guarding against
    transferring U.S. military forces and U.S. sovereignty to the
    United Nations.


    The "New World Order"

    In an exclusive interview published in the December 31, 1990 /
    January 7, 1991 issue of U.S. News & World Report, President Bush
    called for "a reinvigorated United Nations" that he hoped would
    bring about the "new world order." What should be reinvigorated
    instead are the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the
    Constitution.

    During a January 9, 1991 press conference. Mr. Bush said that the
    crisis in the Middle East "has to do with a new world order [that]
    is only going to be enhanced if this newly activated peacekeeping
    function of the United Nations proves to be effective." Obviously,
    he considers our forces in the Middle East to have been under the
    UNs peacekeeping jurisdiction. And isn't it curious that this
    supposed "peace" organization's authority was used to start the
    Persian Gulf war?

    Then, in his January 19,1991 speech to the nation, the President
    again touted the "new world order," describing it as "an order in
    which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to
    fulfill the promise and vision of the UN's founders. " He didn't
    remind anyone that the UN s founders were communists. socialists,
    one-worlders, and starry-eyed dreamers who would happily tear down
    the unique foundations of the United States and replace them with
    the UN Charter.


    What To Do To Save America

    Answers to some of the questions we have already raised, and to
    others that anyone reading this pamphlet surely must have, begin
    with an understanding of the grip on America held by the Council on
    Foreign Relations. Mr. Bush, a member of the CFR s Board of
    Directors as recently as 1979, can point to more than 350 CFR
    members currently serving as U.S. Government officials. A similar
    CFR dominance prevailed during the Reagan years and in several
    previous administrations.

    Current U.S. officials holding membership in the CFR include
    Secretary of Defense Cheney, National Security Advisor Scowcroft,
    Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell, CIA Director Webster, and Deputy
    Secretary of State Eagleburger. Don't expect any to block further
    entanglement of the United States in the UN.

    There are also 16 U.S. senators and a like number of U.S.
    representatives who hold membership in this organization. Don't
    expect them to protect our nation from UN domination.

    Realize too, that practically every nationally important organ of
    the news media is led by a CFR member. Any senator or
    representative who wishes to receive favor from the media goes
    along with subverting America to internationalists goals. Any
    senator or representative who tries to keep our nation independent
    runs the risk of having the media make him seem like a lunatic.

    The great majority of the American people who value their freedom
    and their nation's independence have to become informed and alarmed
    about the path down which we are being taken. There will be no
    change without a rising tide of indignation. And there will be no
    rising tide of indignation until the frightening details about the
    ongoing subversion of this nation have been placed in the hands of
    a great many more Americans.

    Happily, there are reliable sources of information both about
    President George Bush's commitment to his "new world order" and
    about the Council on Foreign Relations itself. We highly recommend
    two books:

        1. The Establishment's Man, by James J. Drummey. A tastefully
        written yet devastating expose of the political career of
        George Bush.

        2. The Shadows of Power, by James Perloff. A history of the
        Council on Foreign Relations taken from its own papers and
        publications.

    The enemy is within the gates of our great land. Those who would
    deliver our nation to a UN-controlled "new world order" have
    achieved great power and influence. Whether they are stopped in
    time is up to individuals who will read a pamphlet like this one.
    books like those recommended above, and a great deal more
    information that is available to anyone. Once informed, an
    American worthy of the name will work with others to throw the
    rascals out of office, and, in the words of George Washington, "put
    none but Americans" in charge of guarding this nation.


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                           FREEDOM FROM WAR

                       THE UNITED STATES PROGRAM
                 FOR GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT
                          IN A PEACEFUL WORLD


                          DEPARTMENT OF STATE


                 DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7277
                         Disarmament Series 5
                        Released September 1961

                       Office of Public Services
                       BUREAU OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS


     For sale by the Superintendent ot Documents, U.S. Government
         Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. - Price 15 cents


    INTRODUCTION

        The revolutionary development of modern weapons within a world
        divided by serious ideological differences has produced a
        crisis in human history. In order to overcome the danger of
        nuclear war now confronting mankind, the United States has
        introduced, at the Sixteenth General Assembly of the United
        Nations, a Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a
        Peaceful World.

        This new program provides for the progressive reduction of the
        war-making capabilities of nations and the simultaneous
        strengthening of international institutions to settle disputes
        and maintain the peace. It sets forth a series of comprehensive
        measures which can and should be taken in order to bring about
        a world in which there will be freedom from war and security
        for all states. It is based on three principles deemed
        essential to the achievement of practical progress in the
        disarmament field:

    First, there must be immediate disarmament action:

        A strenuous and uninterrupted effort must be made toward the
        goal of general and complete disarmament; at the same time, it
        is important that specific measures be put into effect as soon
        as possible.

    Second, all disarmament obligations must be subject to
    effective international controls:

        The control organization must have the manpower, facilities,
        and effectiveness to assure that limitations or reductions take
        place as agreed. It must also be able to certify to all states
        that retained forces and armaments do not exceed those
        permitted at any stage of the disarmament process.

    Third, adequate peace-keeping machinery must be established:

        There is an inseparable relationship between the scaling down
        of national armaments on the one hand and the building up of
        international peace-keeping machinery and institutions on the
        other. Nations are unlikely to shed their means of
        self-protection in the absence of alternative ways to safeguard
        their legitimate interests. This can only be achieved through
        the progressive strengthening of international institutions
        under the United Nations and by creating a United Nations Peace
        Force to enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds.

                               ---===---

        There follows a summary of the principal provisions of the
        United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a
        Peaceful World. The full text of the program is contained in an
        appendix to this pamphlet.


                           FREEDOM FROM WAR

                       THE UNITED STATES PROGRAM
                 FOR GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT
                          IN A PEACEFUL WORLD


    SUMMARY

    DISARMAMENT GOAL AND OBJECTIVES

    The overall goal of the United States is a free, secure, and
    peaceful world of independent states adhering to common standards
    of justice and international conduct and subjecting the use of
    force to the rule of law; a world which has achieved general and
    complete disarmament under effective international control; and a
    world in which adjustment to change takes place in accordance with
    the principles of the United Nations.

    In order to make possible the achievement of that goal, the program
    sets forth the following specific objectives toward which nations
    should direct their efforts:

      * The disbanding of all national armed forces and the prohibition
        of their reestablishment in any form whatsoever other than
        those required to preserve internal order and for contributions
        to a United Nations Peace Force;

      * The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments,
        including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for
        their delivery, other than those required for a United Nations
        Peace Force and for maintaining internal order;

      * The institution of effective means for the enforcement of
        international agreements, for the settlement of disputes, and
        for the maintenance of peace in accordance with the principles
        of the United Nations;

      * The establishment and effective operation of an International
        Disarmament Organization within the framework of the United
        Nations to insure compliance at all times with all disarmament
        obligations.


    TASKS OF NEGOTIATING STATES

    The negotiating states are called upon to develop the program into
    a detailed plan for general and complete disarmament and to
    continue their efforts without interruption until the whole program
    has been achieved. To this end, they are to seek the widest
    possible area of agreement at the earliest possible date. At the
    same time, and without prejudice to progress on the disarmament
    program, they are to seek agreement on those immediate measures
    that would contribute to the common security of nations and that
    could facilitate and form part of the total program.


    GOVERNING PRINCIPLES

    The program sets forth a series of general principles to guide the
    negotiating states in their work. These make clear that:

      * As states relinquish their arms, the United Nations must be
        progressively strengthened in order to improve its capacity to
        assure international security and the peaceful settlement of
        disputes;

      * Disarmament must proceed as rapidly as possible, until it is
        completed, in stages containing balanced, phased, and
        safeguarded measures;

      * Each measure and stage should be carried out in an agreed
        period of time, with transition from one stage to the next to
        take place as soon as all measures in the preceding stage have
        been carried out and verified and as soon as necessary
        arrangements for verification of the next stage have been made;

      * Inspection and verification must establish both that nations
        carry out scheduled limitations or reductions and that they do
        not retain armed forces and armaments in excess of those
        permitted at any stage of the disarmament process; and

      * Disarmament must take place in a manner that will not affect
        adversely the security of any state.


    DISARMAMENT STAGES

    The program provides for progressive disarmament steps to take
    place in three stages and for the simultaneous strengthening of
    international institutions.


                              FIRST STAGE

    The first stage containS measures which would significantly reduce
    the capabilities of nations to wage aggressive war. Implementation
    of this stage would mean that:

      * The nuclear threat would be reduced:

            All states would have adhered to a treaty effectively
            prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons.

            The production of fissionable materials for use in weapons
            would be stopped and quantities of such materials from past
            production would be converted to non-weapons uses.

            States owning nuclear weapons would not relinquish control
            of such weapons to any nation not owning them and would not
            transmit to any such nation information or material
            necessary for their manufacture.

            States not owning nuclear weapons would not manufacture
            them or attempt to obtain control of such weapons belonging
            to other states.

            A Commission of Experts would be established to report on
            the feasibility and means for the verified reduction and
            eventual elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles.

      * Strategic delivery vehicles would be reduced:

            Strategic nuclear weapons delivery vehicles of specified
            categories and weapons designed to counter such vehicles
            would be reduced to agreed levels by equitable and balanced
            steps; their production would be discontinued or limited;
            their testing would be limited or halted.

      * Arms and armed forces would be reduced:

            The armed forces of the United States and the Soviet Union
            would be limited to 2.I million men each (with appropriate
            levels not exceeding that amount for other militarily
            significant states); levels of armaments would be
            correspondingly reduced and their production would be
            limited.

            An Experts Commission would be established to examine and
            report on the feasibility and means of accomplishing
            verifiable reduction and eventual elimination of all
            chemical, biological and radiological weapons.

      * Peaceful use of outer space would be promoted:

            The placing in orbit or stationing in outer space of
            weapons capable of producing mass destruction would be
            prohibited.

            States would give advance notification of space vehicle and
            missile launchings.

      * U.N. peace-keeping powers would be strengthened:

            Measures would be taken to develop and strengthen United
            Nations arrangementS for arbitration, for the development
            of international law, and for the establishment in Stage II
            of a permanent U.N. Peace Force.

      * An International Disarmament Organization would be established
        for effective verification of the disarmament program:

            Its functions would be expanded progressively as
            disarmament proceeds.

            It would certify to all states that agreed reductions have
            taken place and that retained forces and armaments do not
            exceed permitted levels.

            It would determine the transition from one stage to the
            next.

      * States would be committed to other measures to reduce
        international tension and to protect against the chance of war
        by accident, miscalculation, or surprise attack:

            States would be committed to refrain from the threat or use
            of any type of armed force contrary to the principles of
            the U.N. Charter and to refrain from indirect aggression
            and subversion against any country.

            A U.N. peace observation group would be available to
            investigate any situation which might constitute a threat
            to or breach of the peace.

            States would be committed to give advance notice of major
            military movements which might cause alarm; observation
            posts would be established to report on concentrations and
            movements of military forces.


                             SECOND STAGE

    The second stage contains a series of measures which would bring
    within sight a world in which there would be freedom from war.
    Implementation of all measures in the second stage would mean:

      * Further substantial reductions in the armed forces, armaments,
        and military establishments of states, including strategic
        nuclear weapons delivery vehicles and countering weapons;

      * Further development of methods for the peaceful settlement of
        disputes under the United Nations;

      * Establishment of a permanent international peace force within
        the United Nations;

      * Depending on the findings of an Experts Commission, a halt in
        the production of chemical, bacteriological and radiological
        weapons and a reduction of existing stocks or their conversion
        to peaceful uses;

      * On the basis of the findings of an Experts Commission, a
        reduction of stocks of nuclear weapons;

      * The dismantling or the conversion to peaceful uses of certain
        military bases and facilities wherever located; and

      * The strengthening and enlargement of the International
        Disarmament Organization to enable it to verify the steps taken
        in Stage II and to determine the transition to Stage III.


                              THIRD STAGE

    During the third stage of the program, the states of the world,
    building on the experience and confidence gained in successfully
    implementing the measures of the first two stages, would take final
    steps toward the goal of a world in which:

      * States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear armaments,
        and establishments required for the purpose of maintaining
        internal order; they would also support and provide agreed
        manpower for a U.N. Peace Force.

      * The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities
        of armaments, would be fully functioning.

      * The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for
        those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N.
        Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All
        other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful
        purposes.

      * The peace-keeping capabilities of the United Nations would be
        sufficiently strong and the obligations of all states under
        such arrangements sufficiently far-reaching as to assure peace
        and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world.


                               APPENDIX


                      DECLARATION ON DISARMAMENT

                       THE UNITED STATES PROGRAM
                 FOR GENERAL AND COMPLETE DISARMAMENT
                          IN A PEACEFUL WORLD


    The Nations of the world,

    Conscious of the crisis in human history produced by the
    revolutionary development of modern weapons within a world divided
    by serious ideological differences;

    Determined to save present and succeeding generations from the
    scourge of war and the dangers and burdens of the arms race and to
    create conditions in which all peoples can strive freely and
    peacefully to fulfill their basic aspirations;

    Declare their goal to be: A free, secure, and peaceful world of
    independent states adhering to common standards of justice and
    international conduct and subjecting the use of force to the rule
    of law; a world where adjustment to change takes place in
    accordance with the principles of the United Nations; a world where
    there shall be a permanent state of general and complete
    disarmament under effective international control and where the
    resources of nations shall be devoted to man's material, cultural,
    and spiritual advance;

    Set forth as the objectives of a program of general and complete
    disarmament in a peaceful world:

        (a) The disbanding of all national armed forces and the
        prohibition of their reestablishment in any form whatsoever
        other than those required to preserve internal order and for
        contributions to a United Nations Peace Force;

        (b) The elimination from national arsenals of all armaments,
        including all weapons of mass destruction and the means for
        their delivery, other than those required for a United Nations
        Peace Force and for maintaining internal order;

        (c) The establishment and effective operation of an
        International Disarmament Organization within the framework of
        the United Nations to ensure compliance at all times with all
        disarmament obligations;

        (d) The institution of effective means for the enforcement of
        international agreements, for the settlement of disputes, and
        for the maintenance of peace in accordance with the principles
        of the United Nations.

    Call on the negotiating states:

        (a) To develop the outline program set forth below into an
        agreed plan for general and complete disarmament and to
        continue their efforts without interruption until the whole
        program has been achieved;

        (b) To this end to seek to attain the widest possible area of
        agreement at the earliest possible date;

        (c) Also to seek - without prejudice to progress on the
        disarmament program - agreement on those immediate measures
        that would contribute to the common security of nations and
        that could facilitate and form a part of that program.

    Affirm that disarmament negotiations should be guided by the
    following principles:

        (a) Disarmament shall take place as rapidly as possible until
        it is completed in stages containing balanced, phased and
        safeguarded measures, with each measure and stage to be carried
        out in an agreed period of time.

        (b) Compliance with all disarmament obligations shall be
        effectively verified from their entry into force. Verification
        arrangements shall be instituted progressively and in such a
        manner as to verify not only that agreed limitations or
        reductions take place but also that retained armed forces and
        armaments do not exceed agreed levels at any stage.

        (c) Disarmament shall take place in a manner that will not
        affect adversely the security of any state, whether or not a
        party to an international agreement or treaty.

        (d) As states relinquish their arms, the United Nations shall
        be progressively strengthened in order to improve its capacity
        to assure international security and the peaceful settlement of
        differences as well as to facilitate the development of
        international cooperation in common tasks for the benefit of
        mankind.

        (e) Transition from one stage of disarmament to the next shall
        take place as soon as all the measures in the preceding stage
        have been carried out and effective verification is continuing
        and as soon as the arrangements that have been agreed to be
        necessary for the next stage have been instituted.

    Agree upon the following outline program for achieving general and
    complete disarmament:


                                STAGE I

    A. To Establish an International Disarmament Organization:

        (a) An International Disarmament Organization (IDO) shall be
        established within the framework of the United Nations upon
        entry into force of the agreement. Its functions shall be
        expanded progressively as required for the effective
        verification of the disarmament program.

        (b) The IDO shall have: (1) a General Conference of all the
        parties; (2) a Commission consisting of representatives of all
        the major powers as permanent members and certain other states
        on a rotating basis; and (3) an Administrator who will
        administer the Organization subject to the direction of the
        Commission and who will have the authority, staff, and finances
        adequate to assure effective impartial implementation of the
        functions of the Organization.

        (c) The IDO shall: (1) ensure compliance with the obligations
        undertaken by verifying the execution of measures agreed upon;
        (2) assist the states in developing the details of agreed
        further verification and disarmament measures; (3) provide for
        the establishment of such bodies as may be necessary for
        working out the details of further measures provided for in the
        program and for such other expert study groups as may be
        required to give continuous study to the problems of
        disarmament; (4) receive reports on the progress of disarmament
        and verification arrangements and determine the transition from
        one stage to the next.

    B. To Reduce Armed Forces and Armaments:

        (a) Force levels shall be limited to 2.I million each for the
        U.S. and U.S.S.R. and to appropriate levels not exceeding 2.1
        million each for all other militarily significant states.
        Reductions to the agreed levels will proceed by equitable,
        proportionate, and verified steps.

        (b) Levels of armaments of prescribed types shall be reduced by
        equitable and balanced steps. The reductions shall be
        accomplished by transfers of armaments to depots supervised by
        the IDO. When, at specified periods during the Stage I
        reduction process, the states party to the agreement have
        agreed that the armaments and armed forces are at prescribed
        levels, the armaments in depots shall be destroyed or converted
        to peaceful uses.

        (c) The production of agreed types of armaments shall be
        limited.

        (d) A Chemical, Biological, Radiological (CBR) Experts
        Commission shall be established within the IDO for the purpose
        of examining and reporting on the feasibility and means for
        accomplishing the verifiable reduction and eventual elimination
        of CBR weapons stockpiles and the halting of their production.

    C. To Contain and Reduce the Nuclear Threat:

        (a) States that have not acceded to a treaty effectively
        prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons shall do so.

        (b) The production of fissionable materials for use in weapons
        shall be stopped.

        (c) Upon the cessation of production of fissionable materials
        for use in weapons, agreed initial quantities of fissionable
        materials from past production shall be transferred to
        non-weapons purposes.

        (d) Any fissionable materials transferred between countries for
        peaceful uses of nuclear energy shall be subject to appropriate
        safeguards to be developed in agreement with the IAEA.

        (e) States owning nuclear weapons shall not relinquish control
        of such weapons to any nation not owning them and shall not
        transmit to any such nation information or material necessary
        for their manufacture. States not owning nuclear weapons shall
        not manufacture such weapons, attempt to obtain control of such
        weapons belonging to other states, or seek or receive
        information or materials necessary for their manufacture.

        (f) A Nuclear Experts Commission consisting of representatives
        of the nuclear states shall be established within the IDO for
        the purpose of examining and reporting on the feasibility and
        means for accomplishing the verified reduction and eventual
        elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles.

    D. To Reduce Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Vehicles:

        (a) Strategic nuclear weapons delivery vehicles in specified
        categories and agreed types of weapons designed to counter such
        vehicles shall be reduced to agreed levels by equitable and
        balanced steps. The reduction shall be accomplished in each
        step by transfers to depots supervised by the IDO of vehicles
        that are in excess of levels agreed upon for each step. At
        specified periods during the Stage I reduction process, the
        vehicles that have been placed under supervision of the IDO
        shall be destroyed or converted to peaceful uses.

        (b) Production of agreed categories of strategic nuclear
        weapons delivery vehicles and agreed types of weapons designed
        to counter such vehicles shall be discontinued or limited.

        (c) Testing of agreed categories of strategic nuclear weapons
        delivery vehicles and agreed types of weapons designed to
        counter such vehicles shall be limited or halted.

    E. To Promote the Peaceful Use of Outer Space:

        (a) The placing into orbit or stationing in outer space of
        weapons capable c,f producing mass destruction shall be
        prohibited.

        (b) States shall give advance notification to participating
        states and to the IDO of launchings of space vehicles and
        missiles, together with the track of the vehicle.

    F. To Reduce the Risks of War by Accident, Miscalculation, and
        Surprise Attack:

        (a) States shall give advance notification to the participating
        states and to the IDO of major military movements and
        maneuvers, on a scale as may be agreed, which might give rise
        to misinterpretation or cause alarm and induce countermeasures.
        The notification shall include the geographic areas to be used
        and the nature, scale and time span of the event.

        (b) There shall be established observation posts at such
        locations as major ports, railway centers, motor highways, and
        air bases to report on concentrations and movements of military
        forces.

        (c) There shall also be established such additional inspection
        arrangements to reduce the danger of surprise attack as may be
        agreed.

        (d) An international commission shall be established
        immediately within the IDO to examine and make recommendations
        on the possibility of further measures to reduce the risks of
        nuclear war by accident, miscalculation, or failure of
        communication.

    G. To Keep the Peace:

        (a) States shall reaffirm their obligations under the U.N.
        Charter to refrain from the threat or use of any type of armed
        force including nuclear, conventional, or CBR - contrary to the
        principles of the U.N. Charter.

        (b) States shall agree to refrain from indirect aggression and
        subversion against any  country.

        (c) States shall use all appropriate processes for the peaceful
        settlement of disputes and shall seek within the United Nations
        further arrangements for the peaceful settlement of
        international disputes and for the codification and progressive
        development of international law.

        (d) States shall develop arrangements in Stage I for the
        establishment in Stage II of a U.N. Peace Force.

        (e) A U.N. peace observation group shall be staffed with a
        standing cadre of observers who could be dispatched to
        investigate any situation which might constitute a threat to or
        breach of the peace


                               STAGE II

    A. International Disarmament Organization:

        The powers and responsibilities of the IDO shall be
        progressively enlarged in order to give it the capabilities to
        verify the measures undertaken in Stage II.

    B. To Further Reduce Armed Forces and Armaments:

        (a) Levels of forces for the U.S., U.S.S.R., and other
        militarily significant states shall be further reduced by
        substantial amounts to agreed levels in equitable and balanced
        steps.

        (b) Levels of armaments of prescribed types shall be further
        reduced by equitable and balanced steps. The reduction shall be
        accomplished by transfers of armaments to depots supervised by
        the IDO. When, at specified periods during the Stage II
        reduction process, the parties have agreed that the armaments
        and armed forces are at prescribed levels, the armaments in
        depots shall be destroyed or converted to peaceful uses.

        (c) There shall be further agreed restrictions on the
        production of armaments.

        (d) Agreed military bases and facilities wherever they are
        located shall be dismantled or converted to peaceful uses.

        (e) Depending upon the findings of the Experts Commission on
        CBR weapons, the production of CBR weapons shall be halted,
        existing stocks progressively reduced, and the resulting excess
        quantities destroyed or converted to peaceful uses.

    C. To Further Reduce the Nuclear Threat:

        Stocks of nuclear weapons shall be progressively reduced to the
        minimum levels which can be agreed upon as a result of the
        findings of the Nuclear Experts Commission; the resulting
        excess of fissionable material shall be transferred to peaceful
        purposes.

    D. To Further Reduce Strategic Nuclear Weapons Delivery Vehicles:

        Further reductions in the stocks of strategic nuclear weapons
        delivery vehicles and agreed types of weapons designed to
        counter such vehicles shall be carried out in accordance with
        the procedure outlined in Stage I.

    E. To Keep the Peace:

        During Stage II, states shall develop further the peace-keeping
        processes of the United Nations, to the end that the United
        Nations can effectively in Stage III deter or suppress any
        threat or use of force in violation of the purposes and
        principles of the United Nations:

        (a) States shall agree upon strengthening the structure,
        authority, and operation of the United Nations so as to assure
        that the United Nations will be able effectively to protect
        states against threats to or breaches of the peace.

        (b) The U.N. Peace Force shall be established and progressively
        strengthened.

        (c) States shall also agree upon further improvements and
        developments in rules of international conduct and in processes
        for peaceful settlement of disputes and differences.


                               STAGE III

    By the time Stage II has been completed, the confidence produced
    through a verified disarmament program, the acceptance of rules of
    peaceful international behavior, and the development of
    strengthened international peace-keeping processes within the
    framework of the U.N. should have reached a point where the states
    of the world can move forward to Stage III. In Stage III
    progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing
    principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a
    point where no state would have the military power to challenge the
    progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force and all international
    disputes would be settled according to the agreed principles of
    international conduct.

    The progressive steps to be taken during the final phase of the
    disarmament program would be directed toward the attainment of a
    world in which:

        (a) States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear
        armaments, and establishments required for the purpose of
        maintaining internal order; they would also support and provide
        agreed manpower for a U.N Peace Force.

        (b) The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and
        quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.

        (c) The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for
        those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N.
        Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All
        other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful
        purposes.

        (d) The peace-keeping capabilities of the United Nations would
        be sufficiently strong and the obligations of all states under
        such arrangements sufficiently far-reaching as to assure peace
        and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world.


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