ATOM TEST BAN TALKS ALSO ON AGENDA 20 WITNESSES ARE CALLED FOR DISARMAMENT HEARING

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20 Witnesses Are Called
for Disarmament. Hearing
By MARSHALL MCNEIL Scripps-Howard Slat[ Writer
Twenty witnesses have been called by Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D., Minn.) for four days of
hearings, beginning tomorrow,, on our disarmament and atomic test ban talks with Russia.
The man who spent
eight hours with Nikita
Khrushchev wants his
disarmament committee
to hear the view of our
State Department nego-
tiators, military chiefs,
Government s c i e ntists,
intelligence experts and
our ambassador to the
United Nations.
? George Kennan, whose
views on our relations with
the Soviet got him displaced
by Secretary of State Dulles
as Ambassador to Moscow.
His appearance, Feb. 4, will
be his first in years before a
congressional committee.
?. Henry Kissinger, author
of "Nuclear Weapons and
Foreign Policy, who, has
warned against a coplete
sus ensign of nuclear tests.
SEN. HUMPHREY
Wi.li; Wield Gavel
tho Will. testify on the rela-
timl.._at arms.. control to hu-
the Administration on a new
approach to the problem of
banning nuclear tests, the
hearings may deal with it.
tI Secret Hearings
What the public will learn
is problematical for the first
three sessions of the Hum-
phrey Committee will be
secret.
Witnesses for these ses-
sions include State Depart.
ment and Central Intelli-
gence Agency o icia s. ief
o ava ra tons Admiral
Arleigh Burke, Army Chief
of Staff Gen. Maxwell Tay-
lor, Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Thomas White, and
Hans Bethe, member of the
President's Scientific Advis-
ory Committee.
Sen. Humphrey has prom-
ised to make non-classified
a - frFUy for ending atmos-
pheric nuclear tests only, re-
serving the right to continue
underground tests. S o m e
leaders in the Pentagon are
said to share this view.
41 Hard to Tell
But while the State De-
partment made available at
Geneva analyses from ex-
perts that it is difficult---imn-
possible in some cases-- to
tell the difference between
an underground atomic test
and an earthquake, it has
not changed its position for
control and inspection of all
tests.
Our government l a t e l y
dropped its edmand that an
agreement on stopping
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If, as reported, there is a The first witnesses will be
Philip Farley, special assist-
ant to Mr. Dulles for dis-
armament and atomic en-
ergy.
41 View on Pact
Mr. Farley recently told
the Joint Atomic Energy
Committee that the likeli.
hood of an agreement with
Russia on stopping atomic
tests depended on the So-
viet's attitude on effective
control.
"If," he went on, "the So-
viet Union will not accept
provisions requiring ade.
quate safeguarding of a test
suspension, we cannot in our
own interests enter into a
treaty. In our judgment, this
U. S. position would be
strongly supported by world
opinion.".
Reportedly, the U. S.
Atomic Energy Commission,
rQls,