Evening star., 1949-04-03
Pact Sqners International Experience Ranges Up So Years

4"c4fC AACus WIN CAPCA ACA~C
IN international relations ranging
from a few years to more than q
half-century will carry their ma
tions' hopes for peace through
democratic solidarity into the De-
partmental Auditorium tomorrow.
The signing of the North At
lantic Security pact. set for 3 pm,
will be the first major multilateral
agreement concluded in the United
States since the United Nations
Charter was signed in San Fran
cisco in 1945.
The obligations of the United
States under the mutual defense
treaty will be assumed formally by
Secretary of State Acheson. sub
ject to later ratification by the
Senate.
Mr.. Acheson, IS, has alternated
between public service usually In
the field of foreign relations, and
the private practice Of law. He
first became concerned officially
with the Nations foreign policy in
1941, when President Roosevelt
appointed him assistant Secretary
of State.
Sforza Dean Of Ministers.
In length of service in .diplo-
macy, however, Mr.. Acheson and
10 Of the foreign ministers WHO
will participate with him in to-
morrow's solemn and momentous
drama are substantially Junior to
Count Carlo Sforza, the Italian
representative.
Count Sforza, rs, can trace his
diplomatic career back to 1895,
when he received his first appoint
ment as a legation secretary. He
was Italy's minister to China from
1911 to 1915.
An old hand at treaty-signing.
he was foreign minister for the
first time 1920 and 1921 and ne
gotiated the Treaty of Rapallo
with Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia
and Romania, an aftermath OF
World War I.
He was ambassador to France
in 1922, but the rise Of Fascism in
Italy meant exile for Count Sforza.
He had considered himself a lib
eral supporter Of the monarchy.
He changed to republicanism,
travelled through Europe and, in
1910. took up residence in the
United States.
While here he was active in
the "Mazzini' and Free Italy"
movements and attacked the Mus
solini regime in lectures and writ
ings. His son enlisted in. the
United States Army in World War
II.
Bevin Was Labor Organizer.
In 1943 Count Sforza returned
to Italy and became active at
once in establishment of the new
Italian government. He served in
various posts including that of
high commissioner for the punish
ment of Fascist crimes. In 1947.
he became foreign minister again
-27 years after he first undertook
that assignment.
Count SforZa is an energetic ex-
ponent of the principle that in
creased economic integration and
political cooperation among the
nations of Europe, represents the
only basis for enduring peace. He
has urged that administrative
mechanisms set up beneficiaries
of the Economic Cooperation Act
be continued as permanent
European project after the ECA
program ends.
Perhaps the sharpest contrast
from the aspect of a career dip
lomat presented by Count Sforza
is found in Ernest Bevin, 68, the
British foreign minister.
Mr.. Bevin has had relatively
brief experience in foreign rela-
tions. His career has been that
of labor leader.
At the age of 10, he left school
to go to work. For many years,
he worked vigorously as an Or
ganizer of labor unions and un-
employment benefit associations
in Great Britain.
Still Union Official.
From 1920 to 1923, he devoted
most of his energy to develop
ment of the Daily Herald as
q labor organ. Thereafter, he
achieved increasing prominence in
British labor councils as secretary
general of the powerful Transport
and General Workers Union.
From 1910 to 1945, Mr.. Bevin
was Minister of Labor and Ma
tional Service.
When the Labor Party assumed
control of the British Government.
Mr.. Bevin was projected into the
field of international diplomacy.
He assumed his present duties as
Secretary of State for Foreign At
fairs in 1945.
He has not neglected his life
long devotion to the cause of Or
ganized labor. however, and still
is member of the General Coun-
Gil of the Trades Union Congress.
These are the other men who.
will pledge their nations to
treaty they consider the Western
democracies' one clear chance of
DETECTING the threat of a third
World War:
Paul Henri Spaak, SO, Belgian
foreign minister. The son of Bel
GUMS first woman senator and
the nephew Of a former prime
minister, Mr.. Spaak is a lawyer
who had held a succession of i'm
portant posts in the Belgian Gov
ernment since 1882.
He has been foreign minister,
with brief interruptions, since
1885.
In World War I, he served in
the Belgian Army and became a
prisoner of war Of the Germans.
In World War TT he he1Dpd foke