Evening star., 1950-09-27
Atlantic Council Calls
For Speed in Creating
Joint Defense Force
BY the Assoeiaied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-By
unanimous and unprecedented
peacetime decisions, the North
Atlantic Council last night ap-
proved the creation of a COM
bined force to preserve the At
lantic community-and Western
Europe specialization Soviet
aggression.
The council called for the Or
sanization of this force as speed
lily as possible and decided that
all available manpower and pro-
ductive resources of the IL pact
countries should be used fully.
President Truman already has
pledged the United States to send
more divisions to the defense of
Western Europe if other countries
interested will make comparable
contributions. The council deci-
Sions carried the Presidents idea
a step further and pledged the
other members of the North At
lantic pact to share in the organ
ization of the first such combina-
ton of forces in peacetime.
Talks to Start Here Oct. 28.
The council left to the defense
ministers of the IL nations the
question of how to'us German
manpower "a hot issue during
nearly two weeks of secret con-
versations-but made it plain that
Germany must be enabled to con-
tribute to the build-up of West
Europe'S defenses.
The defense ministers will
tackle the assignment at meet
ings beginning in Washington
October %.
The council action was an
nounced in a communique last
night. The work it revealed dove
tailed with, or extended, previous
action announced last week after
conferences in New York of the
Western Big Three Foreign Min
listers.
Results Are Summarized.
Here, in brief. are the net re-
suits of the conferences held by
the two groups:
/. The Big Three-the United
States, France and Britain-will |
end their state of war with Ger
many as soon as constitutional re-
quirements of the three countries
will permit. This does not mean a
separate peace will be concluded.
A peace treaty must be written
later with the Russians concur
ring.
2. The Big Three authorized the
addition of 10000 fast-moving
police to the present force of TO-
900 in the Western zones of Ger
many. The police will be used to
stop riots, meet internal disturb
ances and generally preserve order.
8. The Big Three and the North
Atlantic Council left unanswered
the question of forming German
military units as proposed by
Secretary of State Acdesorf. Per-
sons close to the talks predicted
this will come in time but said it
Is too early yet to make such a
revolutionary decision.
Combined Force Planned.
4. The Council decided to ere
ate a combined force of men and
arms from II of its member ma
tions-the United States. Britain,
France, Canada, Belgium. the
Netherlands, Denmark. Norway,
Portugal and italy and Luxem-
bourg. Iceland, the 18th member,
has no army.
S. The combined force will be
under a commander in chief. No
one was named in the councils
communique, but speculation has
been that he will be Gen. Eisen-
hover, president of Columbia Uni
versity. Until the commander in
chief Is named a Chief of Staff |
will direct the organization and
training Of this force.
6. The defense ministers were
asked to make recommendations
for setting up this force as soon
as possible and for the methods by
which Germany could most use
fully contribute to the setup.