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Dispute May Force>Belgians, Dutch Out of European Army
By William H. Stoneman
Foreign Correspondent of The Star and
the Chicago Daily News
PARIS, Dec. 14.—Belgium and
The Netherlands may be dropped
from the proposed European army
unless they modify the constitu
tional objections which they have
been making to the scheme.
In its absolute determination
to get an agreement on a Euro
pean force with German con
tingents before the next meeting
of the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization Council in Lisbon Feb-}
ruary 2, the United States is un
derstood to bs willing to settle for1
a force comprised entirely of
French, Italian and German con
tingents.
Belgium and The Netherlands
have been holding up an agree
ment by their refusal to have the1
proposed force run by a supra
national authority, operating un
der an internationalized budget.
They w»tt* (to retain control over
their own '.national units, while
agreeing to have them operate as
part of ai ft international force
of the kin d now controlled oy
Gen. Eisenl lower. They also re
fuse to agn?e to the idea of an
internytiona-l budget which Bel
gium, 'fcSrtii tularly, feels might
expose' it as the “rich man of
Europe! ” to am excessive share of
the expenses.
U. S. Still Seeks Accord.
Somei other countries in addi
tion to Belgium are afraid that
i joint budget would be used by j
Prance and Italy to shift their j
iwn pper financial responsibil
ties to other -tountries.
Exclusion i»f Belgium. The
Netherlands and Luxembourg
vould be accented by the United
States ortly as a last resort. The:
\merican Mope still is that all of
he six co antrje* concerned will
igree to ,« 1,-0111 promise plan, in
volving aj fair mfea-sure of “supra
- , -f---—
nationalism” but still satisfying
the Benelux nations.
They even hope that Britain
may be persuaded to reverse its
previous position and agree to put
the five divisions which it now
has or will soon have in Germany
into the pool.
High level talks between the
foreign ministers of the six con
tinental countries concerned will
oe pressed during the coming
week in the hope of reaching
igreement.
The ideal solution, from the
American point of view, would be
to obtain an agreement under
which conscription of German
units can begin early in 1952 on
the understanding that the per
manent machinery of the Eu
ropean army will be set up
later on.
Tentative Plan Offered.
For the time being, it is sug
?ested that a European defense
minister or defense council should ■
3e elected or appointed by the six
countries but that actual control
of the German and other con
tingents should rest with Gen.
Eisenhower. The various countries
would also continue to finance
their own troops although their
budgets might nominally be de
scribed as “contributions to the
European defense budget.”
Later, if all went well, the full
dress supra-national machinery
contemplated by the European
army plan would be set up.
The deep suspicion that France
did not really want the European
army but merely intended to use
it to dynamite the American plan
to raise German units, appears
to be fading.
Under heavy pressure from the
United States the French are no
longer pressing for inclusion of
British units in the joint force.
Since Britain announced at the
very beginning that it would not
contribute units to the force this,
seemed equivalent to a French1
refusal to go through with the
plan.
With the growing possibility
that Britian may have to join
the scheme anyway, whether it
likes it or not, natural French
desire to balance German units
with friendly British units may
be satisfied anyway.
Sweden Raises Paper Output
Sweden’s five year plan for ex
pansion of production of paper
and board calls for increasing the
present output of 1.2 million tons
to 1.5 million tons annually.
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