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WARNINGS OF CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO RATIFY 



Secretary Dulles advised Congress that failure to ratify the Inter- 

 national Statute would be disastrous. The injury to the prestige and 

 influence of the United States in the world would be of ''incalculable 

 proportions." 106 



Failure to adopt the Statute would pass the atomic initiative to the 

 Soviet Union or, more likely, destroy the project. He said : 107 



This is essentially a made-in-America project. It is one which has caught the 

 imagination of the peoples of the world, and for us to he the nation that 

 rejected it would have very fateful consequences indeed. 



Whether or not the project would survive that I douht. The only nation that 

 could make it survive would be the Soviet Union which is the only other nation 

 which has sufficient quantities of this material to make it a viable project. 



The Soviet Union, recognizing that this was a project which greatly enhanced 

 the prestige of the United States, sought for about 2 years to block it and 

 thwart it. They finally saw it was going ahead anyway, and then apparently 

 adopting the old political slogan "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," they have 

 now become very active in trying to join up and to try to give a certain leadership 

 of its own to the movement. 



I think however, if we did not. ratify the treaty, the whole effort would 

 collapse and the responsibility for that collapse would of course be clearly 

 pinned on to us, and it would involve a blow to our prestige and influence in 

 the world of almost incalculable proportions. 



The International Atomic Energy Agency Participation Act of 1957 



The resolution giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the 

 ratification of the International Atomic Energy Agency was adopted 

 by the Senate on June 18, 1957. On June 19, a bill to provide for the 

 participation of the United States in the activities of the Agency was 

 introduced. Hearings began on July 2 by the Joint Committee on 

 Atomic Energy, which were held to complement hearings of the 

 Foreign Relations Committee when it acted on the resolution recom- 

 mending that the Senate give its advice and consent to the ratification 

 of the statute. 



The participation Act, Public Law 85-177 (71 Stat. 453) is similar 

 to the participation Act providing for representation of the United 

 States at the United Nations and also at other specialized interna- 

 tional agencies. The Act permits the President to name the repre- 

 sentatives and deputy representatives of the United States to the 

 IAEA Board of Governors and the General Conference, and to the 

 other organs of the Agency. The representatives and deputy repre- 

 sentatives are appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate. 

 The represental ives are to vote and act in accordance with the instruc- 

 tions of the President. The Act also authorizes the payments of the 

 United States share of the annual budget of the Agency and included 

 provisions to encourage Federal employees to go with the Agency. 108 



To be sure that the nuclear materials distributed to the Agency are 

 not a ''giveaway.' 1 they are required to be paid for at no less than the 

 charges established for domestic use. While the President's offer of 

 5,( K)0 kilograms of \ 235, together with matched amounts of materials 

 that might be made available to the Agency by other members, was 



w»Ibid., pp. 14 15. 

 '"■ Ibid., p. i t 



""• Federal employees serving with tlio IAEA .ire given 3-year prntootlon on Civil 

 Service retirement, life Insurance, and reinstatement r i^u < s in tnelr positions. 



