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DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1949 C3 As Secretary General Trygve Lie (back to camera) and the entire audience watches, the cornerstone of the UN Secretariat is lowered into place. By JERRY GREENE of THE NEWS Bureau President Truman offered the Soviet Union yesterday a chance to bring to an end the cold war by "negotiation and mutual adjustment" subject to two conditions: Honest outlawing By Charles McHarry and Neal Patterson Under a sky whose leaden haze thinned dramatically only a couple of minutes before the ceremony and poured bright sunshine over the scene, the United Nations Secretariat Building of the A-bomb and establishment of effective UN control and inspection of all atomic energy facilities. The offer was made as Truman delivered the principal address at cornerstone-laying ceremonies for the permanent UN headquarters at 42d St. and East liiver Drive.

The President spoke to representatives of 59 nations in a ceremony designed to favor none. He was kindly and conciliatory, and the nut of his brief address consisted of the plea for UN control of atomic energy. Pushes Point Four. Outside of the atom problem, Truman confined his address to a declaration that he will push his "Ppint Four" program in the next Congress. This is his' proposal that the U.

privately and publicly, invest large sums in foreign areas to improve the standard of living and make life generally more profitable. Speaking of the atomic bomb, Truman said: "Ever since the first atomic was dedicated yesterday' at 42d St. and East River Drive as a symbol of man's efforts to achieve world peace and ward off the destruction of atomic warfare. With a huge blue-and-white UN flag behind him as background, President Truman told the 16,000 solemn spectators of America's support for the UN's atomic energy control plan the only one thus far developed, he reminded, "that can be effective." Vishinsky Claps Politely. "We support this plan and will continue to support it unless and until a better and more effective plan is put forward," the President declared.

Then he urged that all nations and all peoples strive to meet the continuing challenge of ensuring that "atomic energy be devoted to man's welfare and not to his destruction." Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Russian Foreign Minister and.wielder of many Soviet vetoes in the UN, had a seat near the center of the dais opposite the President. He applauded politely with the others as' Truman continued: "No single nation can always have its own way, for these are human problems, and the solution of human problems is to be found in negotiation and mutual adjustment." A Smile for O'Dwyer. Truman and the unwontedly silent Vishinsky, who was on the platform as a vice president of the UN General Assembly and not as a speaker, shared the attention of many of the audience. Vishinsky smiled only once when he was greeted by Mayor O'Dwyer, who sat beside him but he listened intently to President Truman's speech and joined, moderately, in all applause.

The cornerstone ceremony, held I (MiW Into by Jnokwnu Mrs. Carlos P. Romulo. wife of the President of the UN General Assembly, chats with President Truman (right) and Mavor O'Dwver at yesterday's Grarie Mansion luncheon. 1 World Peace Truman's Aim At Gracie Mansion, where the President was guest of honor at a luncheon attended by 188 notables, he said in a short talk: "I don't want to see another war.

1 am trying with everything I have to prevent another war. All I am working for is peace in the world for all people in the world." Truman said just before his departure for Pennsylvania Station: ''This has been a great day for me." weapon was developed, a major objective of United States policy has been a system of international control of atomic energy that would assure effective prohibition of atomic weapons, and at the same time 1 d' promote the peaceful use of atomic energy by all nations." The President recalled that he the Prime Ministers of Canada and England, proposed in NovcihIkm-, 191(i, that the UN take over control of the A-lHmb and its relatcit by-products. The UN worked out and approved the U. S. control plan on Nov.

4, 1918. providing for complete authority of inspection a plan stolidly blocked by Russia. "This is a good plan." Truman said. "It is a plan that ran work and, more important, it is a plan that can be effective in accomplishing its purpose. It is the only plan so far developed that would meet the technical requirements of control, that would make prohibition (Continued on iuge 5, rot.

2) on the UN's fourth anniversary, was conducted at an unprecedented open-air plenary session of the General Assembly, held alongside the glittering skyscraper slab which will house the UN secretariat. The building stands at the south end of the six-block site which was a slaughterhouse area before John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave it to UN. All the 8,000 seats were filled and about 8.000 additional spectators pressed against police lines on the outskirts when President Truman and his escort reached the site at 11:58 A.

M- From smaller UN buildings under construction nearby, scores of workmen laid down their tools and watched. Hundreds of other spectators peered from the windows of Tudor City. All morning the akjr had been overcast. The combined Fire Department and Department of Sanitation bands had been marking time with popular numbers such as "Look for the Silver Lining," "She Wouldn't Believe Me," and "She Wouldn't Say Yes, She Wouldn't Say No." Maybe somebody picked them with tongue in check. The bands switched to "Sidewalks of New York" as the popping of the President's motorcycle escort announced his arrival.

As he ascended the dais, the final official to arrive Vishinsky had been first the bands struck up "Hail to the Chief." National anthems had been barred, because protocol would have required those of all 5t member nations. As Truman moved to his place, the sun suddenly burst through the thinning haze and bathed the whole area. A Hollywood director couldn't have timed the golden glow better if any director had permitted himself to yield to such a corny temptation. The small figur of Philippine Ambassador Carlos P. Romulo, (Continued on page 10, col.

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