Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-06
1O2d Year. No. 1877.
U. 5. and Britain
Study Yielding
German Zones
Would Let Republic
Reurm if France
FuiIs to Vote EDO
BY the Associated Press


FuiIs to Vote EDO
BY The Associated Press
LONDON, July 6.-The Unit
ed States and Britain pushed
ahead today with plans to give
West Germany almost full SOW
MISUNDERSTANDING rearmament
powers-in their two occupation
zones IL France does not ratify
the European army plan.
Political and legal experts Of
the two allied nations opened
meetings at the Foreign Office
yesterday to draft a program
of joint United States British
action to be launched if the
European Defense Community
is not set up soon.
Almost Full independence.
The conferences here are ex-
pected to conclude before the
end of this week. Under study
are proposals to:
/. Give the West German gov
eminent almost complete indie
pendence in the American and
British zones, including powers
to raise a defense army.
2. Abandon the United States
British French high commission
in Bonn and set up American
and British Embassies.
Such action would leave the
French zone. in Southwest Ger
many, the sole occupied terri
tory in the federal republic and
would put the French under
acute German pressure to get
out of that.
The drafting of plans here
was ordered by President Eisen-
hover and Prime Minister
Churchill at their meeting in
Washington last week. They
agreed then that West Germany
should be given "its place as an
equal partner in the community
Of Western nations"
French Not Invited.
The French were not invited
to take part in the talks here,
the first such omission of France
from joint allied planning on
Germany since the war. A Brit
ish Foreign Office spokesman
said France has been informed
in advance of the United States
British conference and mo
doubt" would be advised of its
results.
The experts here are seeking
possible substitutes for the two
treaties signed in 1852 to join
West Germany actively into the
Western defense system.
One is the EDO pact providing
for West Germany's limited re-
armament within a six-nation
European army made up also of
France. Italy, the Netherlands,
Belgium and Luxembourg.
Its twin Bonn convention,
which takes effect when EDO
comes into being. ends the allied
occupation of West Germany and
restores almost complete indie
pendence to it.
France Is Stumbling Block.
The French and Italian Par
liaments still must ratify the
army treaty. but France is re-
garded as the major stumbling
block. French Premier Pierre
Mendes-France has given an
Indo-China settlement priority
over action on EDO and also has
called for a reconciling of diff
ferences within France over the
controversial treaty.
West Germany. meanwhile,
has grown increasingly impatient
at the delay in ending the occu-
patton. In recent weeks Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer and 9TH
er German officials have been
more and more outspoken. Mr..
Adenauer last Friday said French
rejection of EDO would lead to
formation Of German national
army.
Despite the pressing of British
American preparations to act
alone If necessary, the French
displayed no tendency to speed
up action on EDO. Mr.. Mendes-
France postponed sending a spe-
cial envoy to Bonn tomorrow for
the first contact between the new
Premier and the Chancellor. The
conference presumably would
have taken up EDO and the Saar
issue. No new date was set for
the visit.