§ 53. Mr. A. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will publish a White Paper containing a Report of the recent meetings of the Disarmament Commission and the new disarmament proposals put forward by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydThe Disarmament Commission was only meeting to review the interim report from its Sub-Committee which has already been reproduced in Command Paper No. 9770. The Commission is expected to meet again later this year. For these reasons I do not think that the cost of publishing another White Paper at the present time would be justified. The full record of the Commission's recent meetings, including the speech of the Soviet representative of 12th July which contained the latest proposals of the Soviet Government, will, however, be placed in the Library.
§ 55. Mr. Warbeyasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will propose to the Disarmament Sub-Committee the adoption of a draft convention covering those points on which there is now agreement between all the Powers represented thereon, namely, reduction of conventional armed forces to ceilings of 2½ million for United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and China, and of 750,000 for Great Britain and France coupled with the establishment of international ground 88W inspection of military installations and the stationing of international observation teams at key centres of communication.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydI indicated in the foreign affairs debate that we had in mind the possibility of a partial disarmament agreement. I am not prepared to be more specific at the present time.