President Urges UN To Form World Pool
President Urges UN To Form World Pool
Dull in contrast and imagery President Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations, and in one of the most dramatic pleas for peace, points out the immense destructive power of the atom, and urges the adoption of a world pool of atomic power for peaceful use. Establishing shot, long - General Assembly at the United Nations. MLS - Madam Plaudit and Secretary Dag Hammerskjold escorting President Eisenhower to the podium at the United Nations assembly. LS/OH - General Assembly sitting at their assigned seats. President Eisenhower makes a plea for a peaceful use of the hydrogen bomb. "Today the United States stock pile of atomic weapons which of course increases daily, exceeds by many times the total equivalent of the total of all bombs and all shells that came from every plane and every gun in every field of war of all of the years of World War II. The United States would be more than willing, it would be proud to take up with other principally involved, the development of plans where by such peaceful use of atomic emergency would be expedited. Of those principally involved the Soviet Union must of course be one. I would be prepared to submit to the Congress of the United States and with every expectation of approval, any such plan that would open up a new channel for a peaceful discussion and initiate a new approach to the many difficult problems that must be solved in both private and public conversations, if the world is to shake off the inertia imposed by fear and is to make positive progress for peace. Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish nearly to present strength but also the desire and the hope for peace."