Two Tocsin members Give Officials Plan For Arms Control

Two members of Tocsin spent last Friday discussing their organization's proposals with members of the State Department in what The Nation called "the first undergraduate delegation to visit Washington on such a mission since the cold war began."

The State Department's interest in Tocsin's proposals rose from the Tocsin demonstration in which a reported 1000 people participated, and through the efforts of influential men in the Cambridge area who have been impressed by Tocsin's suggestions, according to Robert E. Weil '61.

Discussion centered primarily around the third suggestion in Tocsin's three point. "Unilateral Initiative" recommendation. Well explained that international teams of scientists be invited to participate in the nuclear test phases of Project Vela.

Well went on to explain that in view of the State Department's interest in the third point, discussion "stressed the technical and psychological aspects of an inspection system and the need to work out the problems of international inspection teams before a treaty is actually signed."

The students, Weil and Peter C. Gold-mark '62, talked to James E. Good-by '51, foreign affairs officer of the United States disarmament Administration, Edmond Gullion, acting deputy director of the Administration, and Elizabeth Goetz, staff assistant of the Senate Subcommittee on Disarmament.