Doubletalk

Whenever Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky has a bad week, bad words fly. Cried he last week: "General Ridgway was told to fight--to maim, and he's maiming, to kill, and he's killing, to burn, and he's burning." Cause of Vishinsky's bad temper was a succession of reverses in the U.N. General Assembly's Political Committee:

P: A Russian proposal that the Korean armistice talks be taken up in the Security Council was defeated, 40-6. P: A Western amendment that Big Power talks be held when--and by implication, only when--they "usefully serve to remove [international] tension" was adopted, 50-0.

Two days later the Assembly established a twelve-nation disarmament commission, as proposed by the U.S., Britain and France. Vishinsky was quickly back on the offensive. Russia was now for the first time willing, he said, to permit "continuing" international inspection of atomic plants. In the fine print, of course, were the usual escape clauses. Nonetheless, continuing inspection was a seeming concession which five years ago would have been hailed with hope and cheers. But as of last week, when Soviet Russia's words without deeds no longer had the power to stir, U.S. Representative Ernest A. Gross dismissed it as "doubletalk without meaning."

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