Atlantic Pact Draft Ready For Final Examination

Chronicle (Levin), 10 March 1949, Page 5

Atlantic Pact Draft Ready For Final Examination

Reeeived Thursday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Ma'rch 9. A draft of the North Afiantic Pact had been reeeived and! would probably be presented to Cabinet at its next meeting,- a Foreign Office spokesman said today. Cdpies of thq proposed treaty had been sent to other sponsoring govermnents and on Friday the final suggestions would be examinedby a "working party" in Washington which had been responsible for preparing the alliance. The British Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin, with the foreign ministers of France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg, will cross the Atlantie for the signing ceremony eany in April. In Washington the Seeretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said the participating nations have achieved the four major objectives in the pact text as it now stands. Firstlv. thev recoanised the facts

of life in preparing to establish formal relationship between the U.S.A. and the Western European nations; secondly, the pact is within the terms of the United Nations Charter; thirdly, the pact provides means for eliminating the sense of insecurity, therebv aiding recovery among the signatory nations; and, fourthly, the security principles of the pact will be made effective by adequate machinery inemding a kind of North Atlantie regional high command. Reuter's Paris correspondent says the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, made a detailed report to the French Cabinet on the Atlantie Pact. Each Minister will examine the pact and it will be discussed again at next week's council.