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So that now we have both
the Saar and Trieste as two
problems which are settled, I
think, and that are not going
to be unsettling to this European
situation.
Attorney General Brownell:
May I ask a question? This
Paris agreement, will it have to
be ratified by the Parliaments of
the nations involved?
Mr.. Dulles: Yes, it win have to
be, and that gives chance for
the pessimists-I am not includ-
ing you. Mr.. Attorney General. /.
Mr.. Brownell: Not by any
means.
Mr.. Dulles: But it gives a
chance for the pessimists to say,
"Well, we are just going to be
back where we were two or
three years ago and just going
to go through the same delays
and Illustrations"
I don't believe it's going to
happen that way this time be-
cause / think what has happened
has educated everybody to the
fact that there is no alternative
this time to this present plan,
and furthermore we have thrown
into the scales for positive action
some elements that weren't there
before.
I refer particularly to this
pledge by the United Kingdom
which is of tremendous impor-
tance, and also I'd say the Saar
and Trieste are no longer there
to be unsettling the whole situ-
alton.
Mr.. Mendes-France, who, by
the way, I hope will be coming
here a little later on, said re-
peatedly, tits up to France to
make good some of this time
that has been lost" And as you
probably recall, already after the
London conference, they sub
mitted the basic principles of
the London agreements both to
the parliamentary bodies of
France and of Germany and they
were approved by decisive major
tiles. And I think that those
facts, coupled with the good will
and the fellowship which existed
through those meetings and the
absence of tension that now is
present for the first time almost,
between France and Germany,
are a good augury and it indi-
Gates that there is probably going
to be a positive result.
Benson's Question.
Now, Of course, some of you
may wonder how the Soviet
Union is taking this.
Secretary Benson: I would like
to know, Secretary Dulles, how
you feel the Soviet Union will
react to the Paris agreement
particularly.
Mr.. Dulles: Well, I would say
that I feel confident that the
Soviet Union will not like what
is going on. Perhaps that is the
understatement of the day
What the Communists want is
Europe that is weak and di-
vided and they are going to try
to get that, but I don't think
they are going to succeed,
This program we worked out,
in fact. is going to protect Rus
sia as much as it protects any
body else against a possible re-
surgence of German militarism.
And there's behind this pro-
gram a sense of urgency and
momentum so I don't believe |
the Soviet Union will be able to
break it up.
When we have reacted, as I
hope we will, position of SOL
idity and strength for Western |
Europe, then there may be a
new basis for discussion which |
doesn't exist at the present |
time. At least we can hope that |
then there can be talks more
satisfactory than those that ex-
listed when the only object of
the Soviet Union is by trickery
and device to try to break up
European unity.
Secretary Humphrey: Mr.. /
President, may I ask a ques-
ton?
The President: Yes. Secretary |
Humphrey.
Secretary Humphrey: With |
respect to all these new agree
ments in Europe, how much extra
cost is it going to be for the
United States on this plan?
Mr.. Dulles: Mr.. Secretary of |
the Treasury, it isn't going to
cost us a nickel extra, and I
am sure that's relief to you.
This agreement that we arrived
at here isn't an agreement that
we paid anybody or promised to
pay anybody to make. This is
an agreement which the Euro
pean nations made themselves,
and that is the main feature
of the whole arrangement. be.
cause the important thing was
to demonstrate whether the Eu-
ropeans had the capacity and the
will to arise to a great emergency
like that. and had the power Of
decision and the power of action.
That's been proved by the fact
that this Is an agreement which
they made and we are not, either
by pressure or by inducements or
bribes, getting anybody to make
this. And as a matter of fact. it
is going to be cheaper for every
body If we can get this agree
ment through.
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