Evening star., 1953-04-26

OElCeQ SCdCeS secretary OF
State Dulles, French Foreign
Text Of Final communique Issued on
NATo Proceedings. Poee A.
Minister Georges Bidault and
British ministers, including Sell
wyn Lloyd, state secretary for
foreign affairs, and Chancellor Of
the EXchequer Richard Butler.
conferred on the problem in a
two-hour session following con-
clusion of the NATO meeting.
The three-power session, also
attended by United States De-
Tense Secretary Wilson, Mutual
Security Administrator Stassen.
French Defense Minister Rene
Pleven and Jean Letourneau,
French commissioner for 1ndo-
China. also discussed the inva-
sion Of Laos by Communist
forces. Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. BIZ
dault scheduled bilateral talk
tomorrow afternoon when nego-
tiations for further American aid
in the Far East will be continued.
Dulles Follows Eisenhower.
The ministers spent much of
their meeting discussing the
moves for a settlement with Rus
sia which began with President
Eisenhower's April 16 speech to
the newspaper publishers meet
ing in Washington. followed by
speeches from British Prime
Minister Sir Winston Churchill,
and Mr.. Bidault, and capped this
morning by Pravda's page-one
editorial in the Eisenhower
statement.
Mr.. Dulles. it was learned, ad-
hered strictly to the lines of
the Presidents speech. to deny
Pravda's pretensions that there
Is q cleavage between himself
and the President. Mr.. Dulles
cited the close harmony between
the speech of Gen. Eisenhower
and his own speech to the same
newspaper convention.
This followed up the statement
made by the Secretary earlier
in a radio interview recorded for
broadcast in the United States
Sunday mornipg-that there is
absolutely no difference" be-
tween himself and the President
on the attitude to be taken in
dealings with Moscow. Mr..
Dulles told his interviewer that
this was the usual Soviet tactic
of trying to SOW dissension among
the Western Peoples"
Ideas Were Discussed.
Most ministers refused to COM
ment on emerging from the ses-
sion but Mr.. Butler said they
had discussed ideas" rather than
precise proposals or acts.
Pravdas statement was the
second jostling the North Attain
tic Treaty Council received be-
fore it could conclude its three
day session this afternoon with
adoption of a bright and CHEEKY
communique.
The first came yesterday when
the upper house of the West
German Parliament, the Bund-
esrat, voted postponement Of
ratification Of the European De-
fense Community treaty, the
agency through which a half
million West German troops
were to be recruited for a six
nation army.
Though the Western buildup
is to go on, the pace will not be
up to that urged by United
States military leaders. Despite
American views, the council
voted for a showdown in re-
armament.
British and French members,
who have been baking at speed
up proposals Of the Americans,
felt they had established their
point of view.
Failure to find a basis by
which France and Germany can
get along together militarily has
enfeebled the community to such
a degree that Secretary Dulles
and Secretary Wilson warned
their colleagues Congress would
demand a report this summer
whether the program was a
going concern or a flop.
Mr.. Dulles gave them until
June 80 to make a better show
ing on the European army plan.