Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-08-27
Defense Treaty
Signing Set for
.TuesdayinRio
Truman Expected to
Arrange Plans to
Attend Ceremony
(Tert OF Defense Plan on Page A-10.)
BY the Associated Press

| PEIROPOLlS, Brazil, Aug. II
brazilian authorities whipped
up plans today for the formal
signing next Tuesday in Rio de
Janeiro's glittering Itamaraty
Palace of an historic defense
treaty under which 10 American
republics agree to fight jointly
against any aggression in the
Western Hemisphere.
| These authorities confidently ex-
Ipected that President Truman would
advance the date of his scheduled
visit to Brazil in order to be present
for the occasion in the home of the
Brizilian Foreign Ministry. They
made arrangements for a whooping
welcome.
A high Brizilian government
source said the Inter-American Con-
ference of Foreign Ministers at this
resort was expected to wind up next
Monday and that although Mr.. Tru-
mans visit had been scheduled for
September 5, he was expected to re-
wise his plans so as to be able to
address the closing session.
Military Machine Next Aim.
Conference committees yesterday
approved more than two-thirds of
the body of the projected defense
treaty, which calls for swift military
action to put down aggression in a
vast security region" stretching
from the Antarctic to the Arctic and
from Hawaii to the Falklands.
Creation of a join military mech
anism will be undertaken at Bogota
next January, when the American
republics meet again to broaden and
strengthen the inter- American sys-
tenn of peace cooperation. A boil
stored hemisphere economic system
will be sought in special conference
late in 1913.
Conference committees labored to
complete their work on the remain
ing portions of the treaty to meet a
Friday deadline, after which plenary
session approval was expected to be
perfunctory.
All of the American republics ex-
cept Nicaragua, which was not in
vited to this conference, and Ecua-
dor, whose status here is in doubt
because of a weekend coup at
Quito, approved last night the
United States sponsored proposal
for a treaty clause binding each OF
the nations to join in fighting az
erosion in the Western Hemisphere
security zone"
Way Open for Canada to Join.
The security zone includes Alaska
and Greenland, as well as Canada
and there was speculation that
Canada might later join as a sigma
tory OF the treaty. The way was
open for her to do so.
The decisions on. aggression ano
enforcement measures generally
were regarded as the major ones tt
be made since these clauses consti.
tute the core of the treaty. Other
articles approved provided for:
Automatic assistance by all Amer
lean Nations when one of theil
number is attacked.
Determination by individual States
to help the attracted Nation on ar
emergency basis.
Immediate consultation to examine
what has been done and what more
should be done to assist the at
tackled Nation.
Consultations when the terri.
torial integrity, sovereignty or politi-
cal independence of any American
State is affected" by aggression
which is not an armed attack, OF
by any threat of aggression or con-
f1ict or by any other factor or situa-
ton that might endanger peace in
the Western Hemisphere.
The approved articles made
numerous re .erences to the United
Nation Charter in order to tie the
treaty as closely as possible to the
| United Nations