held, the delegate of the Soviet Union delivered a fiery speech at the session of August 28, in which he accused the Western powers of obstructing the efforts made toward disarmament,

announcing Moscow's rejection of the Western proposals root and branch.

Thus observers in London concluded that every hope of agreement among the five powers

on disarmament had ended in failure—a failure for which Moscow paved the way by announcing that it had carried out an intercontinental rocket test which succeeded brilliantly.