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Show Taff Condemns Peace Pact Arms Section Watkins Warns U. S. Would Be) Forced To Provide Weapons WASHINGTON. July S (INS) Senate Republican policy leader Taft of Ohio declared Friday that he Is "absolutely opposed to providing pro-viding arms to Europe" in connection connec-tion with the Atlantic pact. Taft declared during senate debate de-bate on the pact that he Is deeply concerned over whether a vote for the defense treaty would obligate him to vote for arms implementation implementa-tion of the alliance. Sen. Watkins (R-. Utah) flatly told Taft that if the pact is ratified rati-fied the senate will have no choice but to implement it with the arms program. This came after a bipartisan group of 10 senators urged President Presi-dent Truman to go beyond the Atlantic At-lantic alliance by seeking elimination elimina-tion of the United Nations veto provision and establishment of a world police force to preserve peace. The four Democrats and six Republicans Re-publicans proposed that if Russia blocks the U. N. charter revision which would eliminate the veto, Mr. Truman should move to supplement sup-plement the Atlantic treaty by a world pact to avert another war. Taft's statement on arms was at odds with the attitude of Ben. Van-denberg Van-denberg R Mich.), OOP foreign policy leader, who said earlier that there are no strings attached to votes for the pact The Ohloan asserted that a state department analysis of the pact "seems to maka the treaty an adjunct ad-junct to the arms program instead of making the arms program an adjunct to the treaty." Sponsors of the resolution which called upon Mr. Truman to ask U. N. charter revision and establishment estab-lishment of a global peace force were: Sens. Spark man (Ala.), Hoey (N. C), Johnson (Colo.) and 8 tennis ten-nis (Miss.), Democrats, and Flanders Flan-ders and Aiken (Vt), Cala (Wash.), Capehsrt (Ind.), Hen. dricksea (N. J.) and Mundt (S. D.), Republicans. |