Rapid Implementation of Five-Power Treaty

Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1948, Page 5

Rapid Implementation of Five-Power Treaty

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Received. Tpesdav, 7 p.m. ' / LONDON, April '19. The Rritish Press warmly welcomes the ra,pid implemeiitation, of the Brus sels pai.et and the naeasures taken by Mr. Bevin and the other Foreign Ministers in Paris to establish both an economic Cabinet for Western E.urope- ■ and a permanent Five-Power Western. European Cabinet with a military com mittee. in London. The Daily Telegraph says that the establishment of machinery for military cooperation between the signatories to the Brussels pact will put teeth into the treaty and is- an inevitable answbr to the challenge eonstituted by the Russian foreign poiivv. Although the Brussels treaty speeiixcally mentions the danger of aggression by Germany, the Telegraph continues, the possibility of this can be ruled out as an immediate prospect. The union, with- its military standing committee, is the inescapable replv to the Eastern bloe aua the policies that inspire it. The iive nations ivhich signed tluBrussels treaty will lose 110 time in putting into operation the machinery it established. The permanent orgun isation .wliieh .will act as. secretarmi for the fire signatory nations will hold its hrst meeting in London 011 April 24. It will cortsist of the French, Dutch, Belgian and Luxemburg Amijassador.in London, "together with" a British representative who is still to bi?" ap pointed. | . Even blfore the, sec'retariat meets, however, representatives of 'these iivteounfries, together with those of thi United , States, will -meet in London lo disc-uss the- future organisation oi Western Germany. Aiready a substan . tial measure of agreement has been reached about this, but the mayi 00 staple is the French demand that the future of the R-uhr should be settlei. befo.re any other arrangements are made, All these discussions are seen as beiug prelimiuary to a joint an nouaiicement which will fiually , establish :a permanent Western Ge-rman Government b.acked' by the United States, Britain and Ffanee and the Benelux nations.