Following is the text of a statement issued to the Press to-day.

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The President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom and the Prime Minister of Canada have issued the
following statement:

1. We recognise that the application of recent scientific
discoveries to the methods and practice of war has placed at the
disposal of mankind means of destruction hitherto unknown against
which there can be no adequate military defence and in the
employment of which no single nation can in fact have a monopoly.

2. We desire to emphasise that the responsibility for devising
means to ensure that the new discoveries shall be used for the
benefit of mankind instead of as a means of destruction rests not
on our nations alone but upon the whole civilised world.

Nevertheless, the progress that we have made in the development
and use of atomic energy demands that we take an initiative in the
matter, and we have accordingly met together to consider the
possibility of international action:

(a) To prevent the use of atomic energy for destructive purposes;

and,
(b) To promote the use of recent and future advances in scientific
knowledge, particularly in the utilisation of atomic energy for
peaceful and humanitarian ends.

3. We are aware that the only complete protection for the
civilised world from the destructive use of scientific knowledge
lies in the prevention of war. No system of safeguards that can be
devised will, of itself, provide an effective guarantee against
production of atomic weapons by a nation bent on aggression,
particularly since the military exploitation of atomic energy
depends in large part upon the same methods and processes as would
be required for industrial uses. Nor can we ignore the possibility
of the development of other methods or of new methods of warfare
which may constitute as great a threat to civilisation as the
military use of atomic energy.

4. Representing as we do the three countries which possess the
knowledge essential to the use of atomic energy, we declare at the
outset our willingness as a first contribution to proceed with the
exchange of fundamental scientific information and the interchange
of scientists and scientific literature for peaceful ends with any
nation that will fully reciprocate.

5. We believe that the fruits of scientific research should be
made available to all nations and that freedom of investigation
and free interchange of ideas are essential to the progress of
knowledge. In pursuance of this policy the basic scientific
information essential to the development of atomic energy for
peaceful purposes has already been made available to the world. It
is our intention that all further information of this character
that may become available from time to time shall be similarly
treated. We trust that other nations will adopt the same policy,
thereby creating an atmosphere of reciprocal confidence in which
political agreement and co-operation will flourish.

6. We have considered the question of the disclosure of detailed
information concerning the practical industrial application of
atomic energy. The military exploitation of atomic energy depends
in large part upon the same methods and processes as would be
required for industrial uses. We are not convinced that the
spreading of the specialised information regarding the practical
application of atomic energy before it is possible to devise
effective reciprocal and enforceable safeguards acceptable to all
nations would contribute to a constructive solution of the problem
of the atomic bomb. On the contrary, we think it might have the
opposite effect. We are, however, prepared to share on a
reciprocal basis with other of the United Nations detailed
information concerning the practical industrial application of
atomic energy just as soon as effective enforceable safeguards
against its use for destructive purposes can be devised.

7. In order to attain the most effective means of entirely
eliminating the use of atomic energy for destructive purposes and
promoting its widest use for industrial and humanitarian purposes,
we are of the opinion that at the earliest practicable date a
commission should be set up under the United Nations to prepare
recommendations for submission to the Organisation. The commission
should be instructed to proceed with the utmost despatch and
should be authorised to submit recommendations from time to time
dealing with separate phases of its work. In particular, the
commission should make specific proposals:

(a).For extending between all nations the exchange of basic
scientific information for peaceful ends;

(b) For control of atomic energy to the extent necessary to ensure
its use only for peaceful purposes;

(c) For the elimination from national armaments of atomic weapons
and of all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction; and,
(d) For effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means
to protect complying states against the hazards of violations and
evasions.

8. The work of the commissions should proceed by separate stages,
the successful completion of each of which will develop the
necessary confidence of the world before the next stage is
undertaken. Specifically it is considered that the commission
might well devote its attention, first to the wide exchange of
scientists and scientific information, and as a second stage, to
the development of full knowledge concerning natural resources of
war [1] materials.

9. Faced with the terrible realities of the application of science
to destruction, every nation will realise more urgently than
before the overwhelming need to maintain the rule of law among
nations, and to banish the scourge of war from the earth. This can
only be brought about by giving wholehearted support to the
United-Nations Organisation and by consolidating and extending its
authority, thus creating conditions of mutual trust in which all
peoples will be free to devote themselves to the arts of peace. It
is our firm resolve to work without reservation to achieve these
ends.

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