Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-20
US. and France Seen
In Accord on Tunisia
Plan Bars
Supplies for
AIgerions
~ tn. Associated Press

The United States and
France repeatedly have agreed
to q formula for supplying
Tunisia with Western arms in
such a way that French tenn
pers can cool and they can
patch up the Atlantic alliance.
The agreement was reached.
diplomats said. between Secre-
tary Of State Dulles and French
Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau during a three-houf
talk at the State Department
yesterday.
Mr.. Dulles and Mr.. Pineau
covered other topics, including
frances two-year fight against
Algerian rebels and President
Eisenhower's proposals to
breathe new life into the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Adai E. Stevenson, Demo.
cratic presidential nominee in
1852 and 1856. sat in on the
NATO part of the talks. Mr..
Stevenson is acting as Demo-
cratic consultant on Mr.. Eli
senhower's Joint plan with
British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan to strengthen NATO
in the face Of Soviet scientific
military advances.
Stevenson, Pineau Confer
Mr.. Stevenson went to- the
French Embassy this morning
| for an hour-long conference
with Mr.. Pineau and Ambassa-
dor Herve Alphand.
He told reporters he had had
a very pleasant and agreeable"
discussion Of various problems
but he declined to comment
specifically on individual mat
tiers. He said the group consid-
cred q number of points con-
corning the NATO meeting.
Mr.. Stevenson said that while
today's conference was "inde-
pendent" Of the meeting yes
terday. some Of the matters
that came up then also were
discussed today.
Il can't go into any details
about that" he said, but we
pretty well covered the water
'front.'"
Mr.. Stevenson will fly with
Mr.. Dulles today to Chicago.
The former Illinois Governor
has some private law business
to take care. of there. Mr..
Dulles is making a speech to-
night before the Chicago Coun.
Gil on Foreign Relations and
will return to Washington to-
morrow.
4 Agree on Algerian Issue
Officials said Mr.. Dulles and
Mr.. Pineau agreed that any
Western arms to Tunisia must
be foolproofed against their
falling into the hands of rebels
in neighboring Algeria.
They agreed to do this
through close consultation
among themselves. Britain and
Tunisia. In the meantime,
they hoped for a simmering
down of what Mr.. Pineau called
1.-The great emotional reaction"
among the people of France to
last weeks United States Britt
ish shipment Of about 1000
small arms to Tunisia despite
bitter objections from the
French government.
Mr.. Pineau and Mr.. Dulles
apparently held of in announce ,
ing their agreement on the
plan to let French emotion cool
of BY saying they were
seeking a procedure" they
avoided any hot criticism in
the French Parliament which
might knock the Gaillard gov
eminent out of Office.
Guarantees Sought
The consultations are ex-
pected to be held among diplo-
mats in the capitals Of the four
countries. Each Of the three
Western powers would consult
together on specific Tunisian
requests and work out with
Tunisia case-by-case guaran-
tees that no guns will get 10
Algeria.
The consultants would take
into consideration any weapons
received by Tunisia from other
sources. These might include
Italy and Spain. which have
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