Authority outcome Department of Staten I - g comer Deans 3 2 ACTION Amembassy DUBLIN a mo YORK 6 5 Amembassy PARIS TOPOL 420 Amembassy IDNDON 0 Be Dublin's DeSpatch H8 and Dublin s tel 55 UK Emb called to seek Dept views on preliminary draft Irish res transmitted ref despatch which they felt much more dangerous than last year's and awkward to deal with since copies have been passed SOVs and French Main British dif ficulty is res Speaks of not to give rather than of not relinquishing control as did last year's In UK view this incompatible with present NATO arrangements Furthermore UK does not like explicit reference to four nuclear powers since this may raise difficulties with France UK wishes convey following points to Irish soonest and hOpes for US support 1 UK feels it preferable use phraseolOgy of fourth preambular para of last year s res as substitute for second Operative para new Irish proposal m tiff - 2 Draw Irish attention to new US declaration which Ises language very close to last year s res and suggest that best action for Irish is to support US draft D P RISpiers ms ig 2l 61 Chat I no a 0 _w M 05-322 as Cat 1 Mn - lulognohle inmm'mion and 6 I0 - Richard N Gardn er dra 31 lluiluul'mn mend byMr Farl Fessenden SOV - Valdes REPRODUCTION FROM Sib- Mr- W- 3 11 COPY l5 PROHIBITED CONFIDENTIAL UNLESS 6035 z a 1951 PH Classification DELLADSIBIEU Authority 3 6 to Amemba sy DUBLIN CONFIDENTIAL Classification 3 Make clear from beginning that even if UK comments accepted no commitment to support res could be given Dept is advising UK Emb that we have no objection to UK making above points but that for our part res contained ref despatch would be acceptable with substitution words not to relinquish control over for not to give in opera- tive para 2 With this change we would be prepared indicate to Irish we could support res provided UK and French also pre pared to support However we would also be ready support if UK succeed in obtaining substitution recommended for present operative para 2 We have no particular difficulty with explicit ref to four nuclear powers We intend to suggest following wording in event UK presses point 1 above galls in particular for an international agreement subject to inspection and control whereby producing nuclear weapons would refrain from relinguishing control of such weapons to any nation not possessing them and whereby Powers not possess- ing such weapons would refrain from manufacturing them Third operative paragraph would then have to be changed by dropping the word other Boa-uth Acnye l_ - OWLES CONFIDENTIAL Classification mm This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu