The Key West citizen., 1954-10-20
Settlement OF Saar Question
Shows Progress After Talks
BY CARL HARTMAN

BY CARL HARTMAN
PARIS R-With progress report
ed between France and Germany
toward settlement of the trouble
some Saar question, the foreign
ministers of the United States and
Great Britain gathered here today
for four-power talks on near-inde-
pendence for West Germany.
The conference is one of a series
here this week looking toward West
German rearmament and soyer-
eighty.
French Premier Pierre Mendes-
France and West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer met al
most eight hours yesterday on the
Saar and a variety Of economic
topics. Mendes-France has said an
agreement on the industrial.rich
Saar must be reached before the
. French National Assembly will ap-
prove the rearmament of West
GERMANY within the Western de-
tense alliance.
The French and German lead.
ers were reported to be nearing
agreement on a plan to place the
Saar under the authority of the
projected West European Union so
far as Its foreign affairs are con-
cerned. A German spokesman
said the talks between Adenauer
and Mendes-France "very likely"
would continue today.
U. S. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles and Britain's For
eign Secretary Anthony Eden
planned to join the French and
German statesmen later today for
conferences designed to bring an
end to a decade of military oc.
cupation in West Cermanv. ActraI
signing Of declaration would
come Saturday.
Also to be signed then are agree
n1ents setting up the seven-nation
West European defense union and
admitting West Germany into the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion. An expanded group of minis.
ters will discuss these measures TO-
morrow and Friday.
The Parliaments in the countries
concerned must ratify all the.
agreements before they become
effective.
The Western Big Four ministers
will examine 1so pages of detailed
rights. The detailed pacts were
prepared by experts who have been
meeting since the end of the re-
cent London conference on West
German rearmament.
Plans call for these accords 10
be added to the still unratified
Bonn Peace Contract, which was
tied to the defunct European De-
fense Community Treaty. The COM
bined text would serve as a SUBJ
stitute for a peace treaty officially
ending the war between Germany
and the Allies.
No such peace treaty can be
written now because no agreement
can be worked out with the Soviet
Union. West Germany cannot be
completely independent until a fl
nal peace treaty is drafted. The
Allies, for example, viii keep spe-
cial rights in divided Berlin and
viii retain the right to take action
in the case Of an emergency in
side Germany.
Dulles left Washington cautious
ly hopeful that France will agree
to all the proposals under discus
sion.
Adenauer summoned the leaders
OF his coalition government to Pa
ris for consultations tomorrow. A
German source said this action
was taken because of the scope of
the French proposals.
The French were reported TO
have offered a broad, far-reaching
economic accord with West Ger
many. that would reduce the Saar
problem to a relatively minor posi-.
ton.
Adenauer and Mendes-F France al-
50 discussed the joint alls Z
OF big industrial projects, which
may include aircraft factories in
Morocco.
On the general idea of under
taking the production of arms in
partnership, they agreed to take
no action unless the other members
OF the West European Union agree.
In addition to West Germany and
France, members of the proposed
alliance are Britain, Italy. the
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxem-
bourg.
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