Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-11-01 | Page 4 | U. S., French Split over Defense Pact

I r U. U S. S French Split Over Defense tense f Pact WASHINGTON Nov Nm 1 UP UP- UP t Th The United French Slates deadlock dead dead- I z lock over rearming G Germany e r m a any n y t r blocked creation of unified unWed armed forces forces to defend western Europe from Communist aggression North Atlantic pact defense ministers tried tiled for Cor three days to reach a compromise on German Germany I and then gave up late Tuesday They turned the problem over to the pacts pact's military committee c and I council of oC deputies A At t the Insistence of oC the United States the defense group postponed postponed postponed post post- I further action on forming western Europe's unified defenses until the question i is resolved I United States Defense S Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- ere ere- tary George C C. Marshall hoped 1 everything e could be bc ironed out In Ina ina a very few Cew weeks He said itis itis it itis is essential to get formation of the collective armed forces Corces well under way by next summer Final agreement on a R. supreme commander and his powers was one of oC the matters shelved tempo- tempo mrily Gen Dwight ht D. D Eisenhower is slated to be named by President Truman to that post once an agreement t Is reached leached The military committee held its first session on the military a aspects aspects as as- peels of the thc German question here Tuesday night The council deputies deputies deputies ties who represent the foreign n ministers of the 12 treaty nations was scheduled to take up up the political political political poli poli- aspects Wednesday The two groups will get to together together together to- to gether later to work out a common common common com com- mon solution The United States has proposed arming arming- about 10 German Geiman divisions as soon as possible as the only realistic way to form unified forces Corces for the defense of or western Europe including western Germany Ger Ger- many F Fearful of a resurgence of German German Ger Ger- man national militarism France France wants to defer arming any German German Ger Ger- man troops until a super western I Ger-I European government is formed Under the French plan German military units even en then would be limited in size to regiments A said the defense e ministers reaffirmed the importance import import- ance subject to adequate safeguards safeguards safeguards safe safe- guards of a German Geiman contribution to the building building- up of the defense of Europe But they could not agree on how that should be car- car j tied lied out