Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-09-18
9-Nation Talks
Called 10 Study
German Role
London Conference
Would Consider
Tieup With NATO
BY The Associated Press

went out today for a nine-power
conference to seek a way to
bring West Germany into the
Atlantic alliance, as the United
States and Britain urged full
equality" for the former Reich.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles and British Foreign Sec
rotary Anthony Eden, comforting
in a long session here yesterday,
decided that the meeting of for
eign ministers should be held in
London late this month.
The Foreign Office announced
that the session will open on or
about September %.
Mr.. Dulles flew back to the
United States last night.
All IA members of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
also are slated to get together
about october Is to study the
crucial problem of German re-
armament. NATO headquarters
in Paris called yesterday for the
meeting but did not set the
exact time or name site. Paris
has been suggested. Athens and
Ottawa also have been men,
toned
Britain Issuing Invitations.
The British Foreign Office
announced it would issue invita-
lions at once for the London
meeting. They will 60 to the
United States and Canada as
well as to the six nations which
had considered pooling their
armed forces in the now-defunct
European Defense Community
France, West Germany, Italy,
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg.
The conference will be able to
Jake up actual methods of
linking Germany with NATO.
diplomatic informants said, be-
cause the French government
already has agreed in principle
to such a tieup. The French
want written guarantees, how
ever, that British and American
troops will remain on the con-
tlnent and German rearmament
will not be allowed to run
rampant, the sources said.
Mr.. Eden suggested that the
nine nations meet to consider a
substitute for EDO soon after
the French Assembly torpedoed
the unified army plan on Au-
gust 30. but the United States
and West Germany indicated
they were not ready for such
talks.
Agreement After Eden Tour,
The agreement to hold the
London conference was reached
after Mr.. Eden made a siy-day
swing through key European
Capitals, outlining new British
proposals, and Mr.. Dulles made
his whirlwind trip to Bonn and
London.
Mr.. Dulles met Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer in the German
capital and saw both Mr.. Eden
and Prime Minister Winston
Churchill during his one-day
stop in London.
A joint communique issued
after the Dulles-Eden meeting
said the two ministers exchanged
views lin the light of their recent
journeys on the situation caused
by the French Assembly's re.
lection of the Edo"
They agreed" the statement
said, upon the need for speedy
action and favored the early con.
vening of preparatory confer.
ence to consider how best to as.
sociate the German fedora
republic with the Western ma
tlons on a basis of full equality. ,
Looser Alliance Than edo.
The proposals Mr.. Eden out.
lined this week call for a new
Western European alliance much
looSer than the one-uniform arm,
envisaged by EDO. Britain woulo
play a full role, and the group.
ing would be a part of NATO.
The plan was greeted enthu-
siastically by diplomats Mr.
Eden talked to in Brussels, Bonn
and Rome. The Paris reaction
was not completely clear. but
the plans supporters hope its
guarantees will remove French
fears of German dominance.
The European Assembly, a
Donation consultative body
continued its debate today in
Strasbourg, France, on how tc
bring about West European
unity now that EDO is dead
Several speakers said yesterday
that full British participation is
needed to make any substitute
plan work. British parliamen.
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