§ 50. Dr. A. Thompsonasked the Lord Privy Seal what proposals he will make to the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament to establish machinery, within the framework of the United Nations, to exchange observers on a reciprocal basis at agreed military bases, domestic and foreign, in order to reduce international tension over possibilities of surprise attack.
§ Mr. HeathThis proposal was included among those tabled at Geneva by the United States Delegation on 27th June. As my right hon. and learned Friend, the then Foreign Secretary, told the House on 29th June, those proposals were welcomed and supported by us.
§ 51. Dr. A. Thompsonasked the Lord Privy Seal what proposals he intends to make on the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament to meet the Russian objection that a weapons control system, if unrelated to the actual implementation of disarmament, may lend itself to purposes of espionage and the collection of intelligence data for hostile purposes.
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§ Mr. HeathNone. Neither we nor our allies have proposed a weapons control system unrelated to the implementation of disarmament measures. Nor have we proposed any control for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which we should not be ready to accept ourselves.