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Council had examined recently
and rejected as self defeating tht
alternative of trying to "isolat,
ourselves" from the rest of tn,
world and pulling American de-
fenses back to the Western Hemi.
sphere
The council is composed of th'
President, Vice President, the Sec
retaries of State and Defense ane
the chairman of the National Sc
curity Resources Board.
The AcheSon statement was con
strued as an answer to formel
President Herbert Hoover's speech
Wednesday night urging that thi.
country concentrate now on {
hemisphere defense plan and sene
no more troops or dollars to Eu.
rope until Western European
countries have armed themselve.
into sure dam against the Rec
flood"
Big Four Talks Approved.
Mr.. Acheson spoke soon after
the United States, Britain anc
France had proposed to Russia q
new effort to settle major East
West differences through a con-
ference of the Big -Four foreign
ministers.
Officials here had little hope
of anything worth while coming
OF this peace move because OF
what one described as the record
of dismal futility" in previous
negotiations with the Soviet since
World War II.
Michael j. McDermott, State
Department press officer, said the
Soviet record of obstructing ef-
forts to settle major problems in
the United Nations alone fully
justifies the doubts as to the pros
poets of prompt and satisfactory
settlement of outstanding differ
ences through yet another forum. !"
Russia asked last month for q
conference on Germany. The
three Western powers replied this
would not be enough to remove
present world tensions, but that
any discussions should include all
the principal problems whose So
lutions would permit a real and
lasting improvement" in relations
with the Soviet.
Seek Basis for Talks.
They suggested that the four
governments representatives at
the U. N. undertake to find a
mutually acceptable basis" for a
meeting of the foreign ministers.
Mr.. McDermott said the West
ern powers want to see evidence
OF a genuine desire to cooperate"
before going into any new full
dress conference with the Rus
slams.
A condensation of Mr.. Acheson's
remarks at his press conference
follows:
This afternoon I would like to talk
to you about where we have gotten
in the development of the North
Atlantic Treaty, what we did at
Brussels and where we are going
from that meeting.
I think the best way of putting
this thing in perspective is to say
that this meeting at Brussels was
the conclusion of a chapter in a
long book, a book in which the
chapters which lie behind us are
history, and the chapters that lie
before us are plans for dynamic
action.
Brussels brought the elimination
of part of the North Atlantic
Treaty work. We have finished the
matter Of plans. We have finished
the matter of organization. Now we
have taken the first step in the field
OF action. From now on it is action
which counts and not further reso-
lutions or further plans or further
meetings, although there will be all
of those.
At Brussels we did several
things. They had to do with
the creation Of the united.
unified, integrated army which is
to provide for the defense of Eu-
rope. -.
The structure was agreed upon
and the force was created.
Gen. Eisenhower was unanimously
appointed the supreme commander
AS he has stated, he will leave
shortly after the first of the year
to go over and arrange for the
creation and location of his staff.
Translation Into Guns.
The creation of a supreme COM
mander and the selection of Gen.
Eisenhower is an essential step and
a most vital step in galvanizing
into action the actual translation
OF these papers into terms of men
with guns and materiel and air
forces and naval forces into be-
ing. :.
This force which is now in being
means several concrete things. 1t
means, first of all, that our forces
in Europe will be, and they now
are, under the command of Gen.
Eisenhower. 1t means that the Brit
ish and French and Italian and
Dutch and Belgian and all the
other forces Of all the other North
Atlantic Treaty nations which are
now in existence for the defense
Of Europe will be, and many of
them now are, under his command.
1t means also that those forces
must be increased. They are not
now adequate for their mission.
They will be increased and steps
are in process now by which they
will be increased in France and in
England and in other countries of