IMPORTANT MEETING
(N.Z.P.A.-
-Reuter,
Western Minisfers Drafting Defence Estimates
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Received Tuesday, 9.40 a.m. LONDON, March 14. Fourteen European Cabinet Ministers met in . London for the first session bf the Western Union Consultative Gouncil today, says Reuter's diplomatic correspondent. Their main problem was to draft the estimates for Western Union defence in view of the.imminent signing of the Atlantic Pact. The formal linking of Western' Union defence with the defence' plans of the United States and Canada — which the Atlantic Pa!ct aims ' to achieve — means that the Western Union Powers must revise the estimates of their needs for United States aid. Because of this, che delegations of Britain, France, Belgium and Holland included the Foreign Ministers, Defence Ministers and Finance Ministers of each country. Luxembourg was represented by its Prime Minister, M. Pierre Du Pond, and Foreign Minister, M. Joseph Nech.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1949, Page 5
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