Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-09-24

than might have been expected a
Atlantic treaty Allies of a bold m
sian aggression that calls for re-
peacetime policies of many Of
the governments concerned.
The American program, in
brief. proposes indignation of all
the armed forces that can be
raised for the defense of free Eu-
rope-including German military
units as we'll as greatly increased
numbers of United States and
other Allied troops-into a united
force, with a single top COM
mander functioning at the head
Of a combined staff.
In traditional diplomatic prac-
tice, it would take months of note
writing to spell out all the de-
tails of such a program and find
answers to all the complicated
financial and economic as well as
military problems it raises, as a
preliminary to agreement.
Mr.. Acheson doesn't feel there
is time for that sort of thing now.
He sees the need for getting con-
crete action started right away to
build up an effective defense force
against a possible Soviet attack in
Europe as SO urgent that the
problem must be approached the
other way around.
Instead of waiting until tech
nicians can work out all the an
swers and put up signposts to
guide action all along the way
he wants to start out blazing the
trail with an agreement in prin-
ciple-a full acceptance of the
idea. Then, he feels, the de-
tails can be worked out as we
go along, with many problems
tending to solve themselves in &C
ton.
The Secretary is impatient with
critics who say the New York
conferences have failed to pro-
duce agreement so far because
there was not the traditional adj
vance diplomatic preparation.
Circumstances made such ordi-
nary diplomatic tactics impossible
without long delay in getting re-
suits being inevitable. So he de-
liberately chose a shock-action
approach.
Acheson Not DISCOURAGED
Actually, Mr.. Acheson considers
his three-power talks with Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Bevin and
French Foreign Minister Schu-
man and more formal sessions
with the full 12-nation North At
lantic Council last week produced
much more agreement than dis
agreement. The Atlantic COM
munity partners are much closer
to full accord than could be
spelled out in formal announce
ment.
There Is no disagreement about
the goal to be achieved-an eff
fectively integrated defense force
for free Europe, strong enough
to prevent war by convincing the
Kremlin that aggression in Europe
could not succeed. All the for
eign ministers were of one mind
about where they wanted to go.
Many differences of view about
how to get there evaporated in
the heat of plain talk.
Mr.. Bevin, who entered the
talks frankly skeptical about some
aspects of the American pro-
posals-especially regarding the
inclusion of German units in the
projected community army for
Europe-took little time to come
around to agreement in principle.
But Mr.. Schuman felt he need
ed more time to win the support
of political leaders of various par
ties at home before he could agree
to the German armament part of
the lone package" program Of
fered by Mr.. Acheson. Some
others who Endorsed the whole
idea ran into questions from home
about possible. need for constitu-
tional revisions before national
armed forces could be put under
international command in peace
time.
Mr.. Aeheson realized that his
proposals had taken most of his
colleagues. on the Council by sur
prise and was not disappointed
when it developed last Monday
that a brief time-out was neces-
sary.
Convinced that the program is
inevitable, he is confident that
the Council will be able to an
nounce agreement in principle
when the 12-nation group meets