Evening star., 1952-03-06
Mutual Security Proqrom, 1853 (in MiIIions)


Mutual Security Prog
Military
Europe --------4 4,070
Near East and Africa 606 !.
ASia and the Pacific Gil
american Republics 50
Multilateral technical as
sistance. migration and
relief package freight
Administration --------
~ Includes economic assistance fol
! ca Includes assistance to support
SS1 Columns do not add to totals 3
igains as q result Of actions w
jhave taken under our policy ol
peace through collective strength
FIRST Ii Greece and Turkey
then, In 1948, through the Eu'
Iropean Recovery Program, ant
since l949 Through the growing
defensive power Of the North At.
lantic Treaty Organization. Tha
American contribution did not o.
itself create these gains; but Il
did supply the essential margir
without which the European!
could not have fought their way
lout Of their postwar slough Of
|despond. 70
Five years ago, many European
nations were on the verge o.
economic or political Collapse. A
divided and despairing continent
next to our own, the most pro.
|ductive and industrially powerful
in the wprid-lay open for Soviet
conquest. -"
How different the picture is to.
day. Europe has made immense
advances In economic output, ir
military strength, in political self
confidence, in progress towarC
unity. Today, the Soviet Unior
knows that it cannot achieve it!
purposes in Europe. so long al
the policy Of collective strength
continues.
Europe still has far to go. Eco
nomic health and vitality ir
Europe require a series Of spe-
cific actions-varying from coun-
try to country-to raise industrial
and agricultural productivity. tc
knock down trade barriers and
exchange restrictions, and to en-
courage the vigorous forces OF
competition in European and
world markets. They require fur
ther progress toward the demo-
cratic goals of a fair distribution
OF income. strong and free trade
unions, fair and effective tax sys-
TENS, and programs of land re-
form.
Above all, we in the United
States do not believe that West
er1 Europe can achieve its full
strength without accelerated prog
ress toward unity. Only this
unity can release the great po-
tential energy of free Europe. We
will continue in every way we
can to- encourage its attainment
Great Difficulties.
The difficulties are very great
It Is only candid to report that
progress in this direction has not
always been as fast as we hoped
xst Ia many respects the progress
has BEEN most impressive.
A revolution has been taking
place in European thinking. The
Organization for European Eco
nomic Cooperation and the Eu-
ropean Payments Union have laid
foundations for joint action in
the economic and financial fields.
In the Schuman Plan. six coun-
tries are creating an interna-
tional authority for the produc-
ton and distribution of coal and
steel. Under the European De-
fenSe Community, the same six
countries are planning to eStab-
lish common armed forces. a COM
mon defense ministry, and a COM
mon military budget.
Europe has moved faster toward
integration in the last five years
than it did in the previous 500. At
every stage in this movement. the
United States has provided en-
couragement and support. II this
progress continues in the next five
years-and I am confident it will
"a new Europe will emerge as q
great and creative partner in the
defense Of freedom.
It is this progress toward Euro
pean economic recovery and polit-
ical unity which makes possible a
growing defense effort in Western
Europe. The build-up of military
strength there since the signing o1
the North Atlantic Treaty has
been most encouraging. In the
coming fiscal year, European mill
tary expenditures will be consid.
erably more than twice as large
as they were in the year preceding
the Communist aggression in Ko-
rea. Production Of military mate
riel in Western Europe has multi
piled about four times in thai
period. The European nations have
heightened the training period.
under their compulsory military
service programs and have sub
stantially enlarged and improved
their armed forces. The pace oi
the military build-up has giver
many millions Of Europeans new
confidence in their capacity to re.
sist aggression.
This Is an impressive record d
progress. OF course, the record Il
far from erfect-especially II
view of the urgency, Of the threa,
posed by aggressive Soviet impe.
rialism. We can find many specifl,
weaknesses and shortcomings tx
criticize-and some people in oul
country fasten their attention 81
exclusively on such things as t,
advocate that the defense Of Eu'