Workers Can Unite World

Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1949, Page 5

Workers Can Unite World

Received Monday, 9.55 p.m. T. .. . , . TT , , WASHINGTON, April 4. , _ Britam, the States, Canada and nine other nations, will sign the treaty creating the new North Atlantic security alliance today, ' The signMnpe eeremony, AVashington's most elaborate diplomatic event for nearly three decadcs," will begin at 3 p.m. local nwt. QQ0? S nnna chmfx to niue rnonths of preparation and will pledge 332,000,000 people to stand together in the defence of W.estern civii)sation. Aecording to the New York Herald-Tribune 's correspondent diplomatic ofdcials bclieve the Soviet may denounce its treaties o friendship with Britain and France. Diplomats also are watchl.ng iikely tronble spots — Finjand, Norwmy, Persia — for signs of more positive Russian action. President Truman, who will speak at the ceremony, is expected o stress that the alliance is defensive in character, that the Western nations want peace. and that the treaty is designed not to weaken but to strengthen United Nations. The same themes will be advanced in shorter speeches by the twelve men .who will sign the treaty. The signing ceremony will be as impressive as the State Depaitment can make it. It will be held in the departmental auditorium of the Government Building on Constitution Avenue, which seats 1325 people. The Foreign Ministers will sit o.n a semicireular stage pt the front facing an invited audience of diplomats, members of Congress and newspapermen. After President Truman 's speech the Foreign Ministers will step to the mahogany table on a speeial platfornj and sign the treaty, eaeh using a different fonntain pen. Kleig lighfs will brighten the auditorinm for television cameras. , Four major networks and speeial concentration of shortwave radio stations, described by the State Department as the greatest ever assembled; wjll brnadcast proceedings to the world in 43 languages.