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little that wasn't Made in Moscow"
| None Of the agreements is point
edly anti Communist.
None covers the entire half BIZ
lion people, but they overlap.
Most show signs of willingness to
give up some national independence
for the sake of security in larger
groups.
Rio Agreement Weak
Here is the roll call of the agree
ments:
1. The stiffest pact was written in
Brussels this spring. 1t ties together
the United Kingdom, France, the
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxem-
bourg. For the next so years these
nations promised to gang up the
minute any one of them is attacked.
(The United Nations Charter per-
mits regional arrangement" for
defense until U. N. has taken steps
to stop war or any threat to the
peace)
The five Brussels powers left the
gate open for any other democratic
nation to join. Canada and the
United States are sitting in on their
conferences as observers, and there
are proposals that they join the
pact to set up North Atlantic de-
fense system"
2. The only other military pact
includes the United States. 1t binds
the United States and Latin
America together. A looser pact
than the Brussels agreement, it was
written at Rio de Janeiro in 1947.
1t says that whenever nation in
this hemisphere is attacked the
other nations will consult to name
the aggressor and to figure out help
for the attacked nation.
Washington experts feel it is weak
in that it doesn't make a fiat prom
ise to help the attacked nation.
However, there is the broad impli-
cation that help will be given.
Cooperation Urged
3. The Marshall Plan, if it oper-
ates in the way its American di-
rectors hope, may go far toward
sewing Europe's production and
financial pattern into single piece.
From the start the United States
has insisted that the Is nations get
ting help tie together their recov-
cry programs.
Talk of knitting European produc-
tion together takes many forms:
Setting up money pool that will
make it easier for them to buy from
each other. shifting unemployed
from one nation to any nation which
needs more hands, cutting down
tariffs and so on.
Paul Hoffman, American director
Of the plan, has told the Europeans
"old ways of doing business have to
be changed"
4. For centuries there has been
sporadic talk of United States of
Europe"
A dramatic example of such
thinking: As World War II got
under way, Prime Minister Churchill
pleaded with France to merge into
"one Franco British union"
France turned down the offer, but
now Churchill has nursed the idea
into a broader one.
At The Hague, Netherlands, this
spring, in meeting of nongovern-
mental people from all over Europe,
Churchill proposed European de-
Lucrative assembly" open to all citi-
zens of any European nation that
Joined. The meeting voted in favor,
out the idea will have to be adopted
by governments If the assembly is
ever to be created.
5. Ell Salvador and Guatemala
have wiped out visas. Their citizens
move back and forth as though
they were citizens of a single nation.
6. In February, 1914, Australia
and New Zealand determined to act
together on several problems. Most
Importantly they announced South
Pacific defense zone"
Z. In March, 1945, the seven Arab
nations formed the Arab League to
tie together more closely their "po-
litical, economic and cultural lives.
The nations include Egypt. syria)
Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Saudi
Arabia and Yemen.
Potential Lineup
The Soviet Union, with six satel-
lites (Yugoslavia is not counted be-
cause Of It's uncertain position), can
claim 2s1 1881, lbs people. The So
Wet bloc is acting together in trade
and foreign policy and could prob
ably 'be whipped into single war
machine.
The Brussels military pact ties
together LOG. al 1913 people Britain
would be involved if that pact were
invoked and would probably get the
help of Canada. Australia, New
Zealand and South Africa. That
would bring the number to 3S,12s,-
1859 people.
The 245, 5,475,412 people OF the
Western Hemisphere have promised
to act together If any Of their ma
tions are attacked.
Arabian leaders have time and
again decried communism. In one
way or another their 1859 sos peo-
pie would probably throw their lot,
or at least their goods, with the
anti Communist world.
United economic planning is be-
ing written for the 215 1880 peo-
pie of Western Europe.