Evening star., 1951-01-08
Top French Leaders
Talk With Eisenhower
On Their Part in Army
BY the Associated Press

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PARIS, Jan. 8.-The top mill
tary leaders of France met with
Gen. Eisenhower today to talk, in
terms Cf men and guns, of their
contribution to his Atlantic army.
Among them was Gen. Alphonse
Juin, career soldier and an Eisen-
hover colleague of World War II,
who is strongly reported due to be
the Atlantic army's ground forces
commander.
The famous American general
paid calls on Premier Pleven and
Foreign Minister Schuman early
today, and then went to the De-
Tense Ministry to get down to
work
Defense Minister Jules Moch
received him privately first. then
convened a session of his highest
ranking officers and chiefs of
stats.
Two Escorts Get Lost.
Gen. Eisenhower made his tour
today with only his chief STRAIT
egist. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther,
and two aides, plus two French
officers as translators and escorts.
Two motorcycle policemen started
out as an escort but got lost in
Paris traffic.
At each ministry the five-star
general paused and flashed his
famous ear-to-ear Ike" grin for
photographers. But at none of
them would he tell newsmen any,
thing of the nature of his con-
versations with French leaders. =,
"' His meeting at the Defense
Ministry was expected to last well
into the afternoon. Mr.. Moch
was expected to tell him three
French divisions. now in Germany,
are at his disposal. Similar
pledges have been made by the
United States, Britain, Italy. Bel
gium. Canada and other countries.
Their contributions will form
the nucleus of a European inter
national army expected 10 grow
to more than l million soldiers,
sailors and airmen by 1858.
Warns of Vests Power. I
The famed World War II leader
arrived in Paris yesterday to head
an international force to defend
the West against Communism. At
once he served warning that any
nation that was tempted to test
the power of the West had better
think long and carefully about
starting anything
Gen. Eisenhower's arrival here
marks his first formal visit to
one of the European powers that
will give him men and machines
for the army the 12-nation At
lantic community has asked to
create to fend off aggression from
the East.
After quick tour of the North
Atlantic Treaty countries, Gen.
Eisenhower is slated to return to
Washington late this month. He
comes back here around mid
February to begin the task of
putting into full operation his
Supreme Headquarters Allied
Powers in Europe. ags 14a
Tones Are Confident.
In tones as confident as though /
he had 100 divisions at his COM
mand. instead of the dozen or so
ready for him to lead. Gen. Eisen-
hover declared yesterday:
Aroused and united, there is
nothing which the nations of
the Atlantic community cannot |
achieve. Let those who might be
tempted to put this power to the
test, ponder well the lessons of
history. The cause of freedom
can never be defeated.
II am here" he declared, "be-
cause the United States believes |
with the rest of the western world
that We have, not only the right,
but the duty to protect the culture
which has been spreading out
through the world"
Making it clear that each Euro
pean member of the Atlantic COM
munity must still continue the
hard core of its own defense" Gen
Eisenhower said mo amount of
outside aid alone could defend
Europe"
Confers With Montgomery.
Gen. Eisenhower conferred for
four hours yesterday with Brit
aims Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery.
Lord Montgomery now COM
mands the five-power Brussels
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