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The article reports on the research functions of the Atomic Development Authority(ADA). The papers presented by Australia, Britain, U.S., Canada, Poland and France suggest that research concerned with bombs or radioactive poisons should be confined to the laboratories of the ADA. Sir Charles Darwin proposes the construction of two laboratories in North America, two in Western Europe, one in the southern hemisphere, and one in the U.S.S.R. Each laboratory should have a staff of 100 scientists with $10,000 salary.

The article analyzes the Chinese-western scholarly interaction. China has signified its willingness to strengthen ties with western universities and maintain or increase the flow of scholarly exchange. Chinese leaders are confident that their scholars will absorb from the West techniques that will be useful for a modern, independent China. An examination of China's academic exchange with Great Britain, France and West Germany was undertaken, and the exchange policies and programs of the U.S. Canada and Japan in relation to China was reviewed.

The article reports on the submission of proposals for partial measures of disarmament to the disarmament committee by Great Britain, Canada, France, and the U.S. The proposal represents the final basis for a first-step arms control treaty, and being regarded as a realistic program which could be put into effect at once. Meanwhile, the West offered an inspection of a latitudinal zone which includes all the Arctic Circle plus Alaska and a portion of Eastern Siberia, and a longitudinal zone covering nearly all of Europe and part of Soviet Asia.