Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-01-04 | Page 1 | Equal Sacrifice Needed 'Ike' Asserts

Equal Sacrifice 1 Needed F Ike WASHINGTON Jan 4 ti 1 Gen Dwight D D. Eisenhower sai said d Thursday the European democracies cies dies must make equal sacrifices sacrifice g with America if forces arc are to b be e built up capable of defending Europe EuI Europe Eu Eu- I rope and maintaining peace I Preparing to leave for his combined comI combined com com- I European command he tot told tolda d a news conference If every sacrifice by America Americ a is not matched by equal sacrifices sacrifice s of the European democracies this thi s thing cannot win At the conference he also said 1 1 I believe that this movement movement movement move move- ment among the western democracies democracies democracies is one for peace and nothing g gt I else The western world feels i ihas it t has the right and duty to itself itsel f to live in tranquillity That is all an we are trying to do 2 He will visit each capital o othe of f the north Atlantic treaty organization organization nation nations during the trip which he will start about noon noo n Saturday He will return to th the e ef United States around the end o of f January for a few days of conferences confer confer- epees then go back to Europe 3 The purpose of this first firs ts t trip is to talk with the officials official s of the various countries and r reassure reassure re assure myself that we are not no t working working- at cross purposes 4 He dots does not know yet what the setup of the supreme headquarters headquarters head head- quarters command will be and does doe s not expect this first trip to produce produce produce pro pro- duce a complete set of plans fo for r that Eisenhower said his visit would woul d not be an inspectional trip al although although although al- al though he might run into a few feu troops here and there