Evening star., 1950-08-20

armed forces serving under Gen.
Macarthur.
Signatories OF the North Allan
tic treaty drew up new and in
creased arms programs which will
be co-ordinated, and probably in
creased beyond even their present
scope, in a plan for a collective
and much strengthened defense
of free Europe, the United States
and Canada.
Six continental European gov
ernments put the finishing touches
on the "Schuman plan" for pool
ing their coal and steel indus
tries-France. Western Germany
Italy, Belgium, Holland and Lux
embourg.
Churchill Makes Point
German delegates appeared at
a free international political
gathering for the first time since
Hitler's Third Reich left the
League of Nations Is years ago,
and determined efforts were
under way to bring Western Ger
many into the Atlantic commu-
nifty in all other possible ways as
well. The gathering was the Coun-
Gil of Europe. meeting at Stras-
bourg. which an 18-man delega-
ton from the West German re-
public attended, and in whose
deliberations it took an active
part.
The Consultative Assembly, the
"lower chamber" OF the council,
adopted by vote of 80 to S, with
|27 abstentions. a resolution intro
duced by Winston Churchill call
ing for the immediate creation
of unified European army under
the authority of European
minister of defense. subject to
proper European democratic con-
troll and acting in full cooper
alton with the United States and
Canada"
On a somewhat smaller but
possibly more practical scale. the
United States. Britain and Can
ada opened negotiations designed
to bring about Standardization of
the naval arms. equipment and
operations of the three powers.
OF these measures for building
up and co-ordinating the free
world. the strengthening of the
forces under Gen. MacArthur's
command is the most urgent and.
probably for that reason, is being
pressed the most vigorously.
The United States Is urging
every nation which has indorsed
the U. N. Security Councils action
on Korea to place forces at Gen.
MacArthur's disposal even if
these. can be only small token
units.
y. n. Reserves Urged
The interest of a U. N. member
in collective security is in inverse
proportion to its size, the United
States is arguing: The smaller
the country. the more dependent
for survival it is on the collective
support made possible by the
Charter. Therefore, the small
powers should be the first to make
whatever contributions they can
to the U. N. forces in Korea.
1t will probably prove unnec-
cessary or undesirable-or both
actually to employ some of these
forces. Some of them can stay
in their own countries, or where
ever else they may be.
Those which are not needed
should, however, be designated
"U. N. reserves" and maintained
in a state of readiness for use
in Korea in case of need, in
Washington's view. These reserves
might even fly U. N. flags, along
with those of their own countries,
to emphasize their availability for
U. N. purposes land no others
officials here think.
Much effort and ingenuity are
being devoted to the furtherance
of this project, and it seems likely
to achieve some degree of success.
Thus U. N. collective security
force may be built up, as result
of the Korean crisis, without any
ones having planned, prepared
for or even foreseen such a de-
velopment.
Major Items on Agenda
Considerably more foresight and
are involved in the
North Atlantic treaty powers pro-
gram for collective security, and
considerably more enduring ar
rangements seem likelysto result.
President Truman has asked
Congress to increase Americas
own armaments outlay by sos
billion during the next fiscal year,
to appropriate 81 billion for added
assistance to the rest of
the free world, and to maintain
the European Recovery Program
at its present strength. At the
same time. the United States has
asked the other signatories of the
North Atlantic treaty to increase
their defense programs and to in
form Washington of the nature
and extent of the increases they
propose to carry out.
All but one or two of the other
signatories had replied to this in
quiry, at the end of the week, and
the answers are being checked
against each other, against the
new American program
and against the needs created by
the Soviet Communist danger.
The replies and the American
appraisals of them will be con-
sidered by the North Atlantic
treaty deputies when they resume
their deliberations Tuesday in
London.
The deputies have at least three
other major items on their agenda,
too: