SIGNING OF NEW PACT NEAR

Chronicle (Levin), 31 March 1949, Page 5

SIGNING OF NEW PACT NEAR

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Received Thursday, 10.25 a.m. NEW YQRK, March 30. The Foreign Ministers of, the four Western European nations arrived in New York today aboard the liner Queeh Mary. The key purpose oi their mission is the signing of the Atlantic Pact at Washington on April 4,

More than 500 pickets marched near the pier in a noisy protest against Britain's policy tqwarfis Israel. The British Foreign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said later that he, was not perturberi by the demon-j stration. He expressed pleasure atj being in America again "especially . on this mission on which we are now engaged." He said: "It is the culmination of a concrete effort to bring about unity among the peace-loving countries, to promote solidarity and to

prevent war for generations tc CQme, It will depend, of c'ourse, oc the moral backing we receive froir all these countries. I.do not mean mereiy the countries, but indivi'dual citizens. "Without this individua] moral force behind it, we shall not achieve what we are out to gain. "I believe that the moment will come when there will be a greater and common understanding, both in the economic and cultura! field. I hope that by the signing of the Atlantic Pact we shall be able to buil'd collective security through the nations."