THE WEEK

Hearings on the treaty of adherence to the proposed International Atomic Energy Agency start May 9 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The speed with which the Soviet Union ratified the treaty has notably dimmed senatorial enthusiasm for it. State Department spokesmen are busily preparing testimony to obscure such demonstrable facts as that under its provisions Red China will probably gain early membership, and American-produced supplies of U-238 (the basic material for nuclear weapons) will be allocated to neutralist and enemy nations. The mounting opposition in the Senate, if given articulate public backing, has a good chance to block ratification, which under the Constitution requires a two-thirds majority.

national review will begin to deplore Mr. Charles E. Bohlen’s transfer from Moscow to Manila late in the afternoon on the day someone persuades us that he should have been sent to Moscow in the first place.

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Hearings on the treaty of adherence to the proposed International Atomic Energy Agency start May 9 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The speed with which the Soviet Union ratified the treaty has notably dimmed senatorial enthusiasm for it. State Department spokesmen are busily preparing testimony to obscure such demonstrable facts as that under its provisions Red China will probably gain early membership, and American-produced supplies of U-238 (the basic material for nuclear weapons) will be allocated to neutralist and enemy nations. The mounting opposition in the Senate, if given articulate public backing, has a good chance to block ratification, which under the Constitution requires a two-thirds majority.

national review will begin to deplore Mr. Charles E. Bohlen’s transfer from Moscow to Manila late in the afternoon on the day someone persuades us that he should have been sent to Moscow in the first place.