Evening star., 1951-11-23
'Super-Government'
For NAT0 Urged by
3 Citizen Leaders
By Gornett D. Homer

By Gornett D. Horner
A plea for greater unity among
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization nations-amounting almost
to a supergovernment in the de-
fense and foreign policy fields
came today from a group headed
by three former Undersceretaries
of State and included Gen. George
c. Marshall.
The plea was circulated by Will
L. Clayton, Joseph c. Grew and
William Phillips. all former Un-
derSecretaries of State, as an open
letter to the American people" on
the eve of the meeting in Rome
of the North Atlantic Council.
Signed by Gen. Marshall, for
mer head of both the Defense and
State Departments and other Cit
izen leaders. the statement listed
these three broad goals" as "es-
sential to the prevention of war
and the preservation of freedom"
/. To give, Gen. Eisenhower,
commander of the joint armed
forces for Western European de-
fense. single political authori-
ty-instead of the present 12-to
which he can refer for decisions
with assurance that a reply will
be forthcoming in time to permit
him to organize the defense of
the West"
Unity Economic Policies.
2. ITO create a single Atlantic
agency for the formulation and
execution of the foreign policy
OF the Atlantic community"
3. To coordinate economic pol
icies Of NATO nations in a way to
facilitate "the least costly and
most efficient manufacture and
distribution of arms and the most
reasonable ALLEGATION of mate
rials for defense" as well as to
plan for trade expansion to raise 1
the general standard of living.
1--WE beg all those of our fellow |
citizens who believe with us that |
the strategy of security is united
action to say so. now." the open
letter pleaded.
Steps leading to greater unity
are necessary, the statement as
serted, because the Atlantic coali-
tion now is weakened by disagree
ment among its members on such
fundamental issues as the size
support and membership Of the
coalitions military forces, assign
ments for arms production, the di-
rection of foreign policy, the ma
ture of trade relationships"
Position of Aggressor.
The statement added:
THE aggreSSor knows how to
take advantage of these differ
ences. While we and our allies
have pyramided committee on top
OF committee in an effort to recon-
cile irreconcilables. the empire of
the aggressor has stretched from
the Elbe to the Pacific. It now in
cludes three-quarters of billion
people who move with the en-
forced unity of dictatorship.
I'm the words of Gen Eisen-
hover, What we have got to do is
to meet that unity with a higher
type-the unity of free men that
will not be defeated
I'VE believe that such unity can
be achieved - differences recon-
ciled in the common good and
common defense created-when
Atlantic nations recognize that /
their problems are too great to be
solved unilaterally and express
this recognition not only in joint
communicates but in joint action.
In an age in which microwaves
and supersonic jets have wiped
out distance, geography has
merged with political science"
Support of Committee Urged.
Specifically, the statement urged |
"all-out support" by Americans of |
the North Atlantic Councils
Ministerial Committee-the So
called Five Wise Men'-which |
was established in September to
recommend means for co-ordina-
ton of the foreign and economic
policies of NATO nations.
Besides Gen. Marshall and the II
three former Undersecretaries of 1
State, signers of the letter were: |
Thomas j. Anderson, editor and
publisher. the Arkansas Farmer:
Norman Armour. former Assistant
Secretary of State: Joseph Clark
Baldwin, former Congressman
from New York: Wayne Chatfield-
Taylor, former Undersecretary of
Commerce; Frank r. Crosswaith,
chairman, Negro Labor Commit
tee; Clyde T. Ellis, executive man
ager, National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association; Mar
shall Field. president, Chicago
Sun-Times; Rabbi Norman Ger
stenfeld of Washington, D. c.;
Clinton S. Golden, labor advisor to
ECA: Conrad N. Hilton, president,
Hilton Hotels Corp; Right Rev.
Henry w. Hobson, Bishop of II
Southern Ohio; Robert L. john
son, president, Temple University;
DR.. Henry T. Moore. president,
Skidmore College: Malcolm Muir,
publisher, NeWsWeek magazine;
DR.. John w. Mason, president,
Swarthmore College; Philip D.
Reed, chairman of the, board
General Electric; William Stern,
president, the Dakota National |
Bank, Fargo, N. OAK; DR..
Harold C. Urey, Institute for
Nuclear Studies, Chicago; James |
w. Wadsworth, former Congress
man from New York; John Hay
Whitney. f1nancier; w. T. Wynn,
director, National Cotton Council
of America; Judge Luther w.