Show OPERA OPERATION TION UNITY 1 Europe Is Weary of Eternal War But Wary of Forming Alliances By Dy Farnham F F. Dudgeon Editors Editor's note t I This Is t. one olle of 0 a settee eerie of 01 articles prepared by bythe bythe bythe the Editor of 0 Western Newspaper per Union while on a reporting trip through Europe and ahel the Near Eai Eat East Weal Weary and WAI wary That That's a word two-word diagnosis of 01 Patient Europe's Europe condition as QI the war fever ever mounts mount recedes recede end and nd climbs again These countries are wear weary oi of war They are wary warr of alliances that might lead to another war Like Americans these people would like to be left alone to plow the fields But unlike Americans American all aU the they need do Is I. look out across their MIl fields to see ace the massed forces of 01 the Russian military machIno ma ma- chIno aligned aton along the Iron Cur Cur- tain tale In face lace of 01 such a disheartening picture how has bas it been possible for tor the free tree world to effect any unity whatsoever in its political and military organizations What force binds century old century old nationalistic tic Uc enemies together Old time Ume religion is a pretty good answer Ike Is th tha Ie Key Gen DwIght Eisenhower key figure in both the political organIzation organization organ organ- that is the North Atlantic Treaty Treat Organization and its military min mill tary tarr arm SHAPE has hili been tramping tramp ing up and down Europe for nine months now with the zeal and much of same spiritual vigor of some of our legendary American evan evan- In fact he told us in his European headquarters that he had bad indeed been tagged as another Billy Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun day He lie is willing he be added to accept the designation because ItIs it itis itis is his firm fine conviction that the only way in which the free countries can survive is by creating a unity which is based on a spiritual appeal ap op peal direct to the lie hearts arts of menro men To ro emphasize this point General Eisenhower said Military might is the product and nd not not the the- sum um of spiritual strength economic health and military mili mUl tary power If any factor is reduced reduced re re- to zero the product of the three becomes zero Spark of 01 Hope Rope Eisenhower's ChIef diet right hand of Staff Gen Albert M. M Gru Gruenther echoed this same philosophy in his briefings Gen Lauris Laurie Norstad Norstad Norstad Nor Nor- stad commander of Allied Air Forces Central Europe told us at athis athis his Ws Fontainebleau headquarters that in the year he had bad been in Europe Europa he had bad seen een a kindling of the me we para spark spars oi Ul of reviving reviving hope He no the me we para spark spars oi Ul of reviving reviving hope He no believes that the reviving hope bope Is coming from the inspiration Europeans Europeans Euro Euro- pears are getting from the feeling of collective security created by bythe bythe bythe the cooperative military and political political ponti cal efforts of the United States Everywhere in the SHAPE command com com- command mand you you find this spirit But of course it takes more than Inspiration to mass the forces of ot the tha free world What is the nature of the organization we have in Europe today and bow how does it function Tre Treaty t Is s Foundation Foundation stone of this structure structure ture is the North Atlantic Treaty ratified by the United States Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate in July 1949 In this treaty the signatory nations agree that an armed attack against one or more of them shall shaU be considered an attack against all ail And they pledge themselves to a continuance of help self and mutual aid for tor the purpose of developing their indi vidual and Joint capacity to resist aggression This treaty sets lets up NATO which stands stand for North Atlantic Treaty Organization Member nations are Belgium Canada n Denmark e n m R I Ie France Iceland Italy Luxemburg Netherlands Norway Portugal United Kingdom and United States The announced object of the tha North Atlantic community of nations na nations Is hi to preserve peace through strength strength strength-by by building up the powers of the free world to a point where no aggressor will be bold enough to strike To build Up such luch a power NATO of course had bad to develop a milt mill tary force and at t the tte Brussels conference con ference in December 1050 1950 the members agreed on plans for building build ing lug this force The result Is the greatest cooperative effort In his tory to create a Joint arm army in peacetime for the prevention of war Gen Gin Dwight D D. D Eisenhower was designated supreme commander for the integrated army and other top positions were filled fined by officers of the different member nations who work together as a team Headquarters are located near Paris France and the command is designated by the initials SHAPE Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe NATO Countries Cooper Cooperate ta taIt It wa was at this headquarters that we heard beard from General Eisenhower and his chief of state staff General Al AI Gruenther Just lust what their problems problems lems were with regard to the building build build- building ing up of this force and a summary of some of the solutions which they the were using to meet the complicated situations situation All of the countries belonging to NATO are expected to do everything every thing possible to build their own de de- de- de fences Americas America's contribution is made through ugh the Mutual Defense Assistance Program Program which bolsters economical potential and actual military strength with funds equipment and technical assist assist- ance These funds and this assistance are not hot confined to our NATO part part- partI I ners Other free nations such as I Yugoslavia Turkey Greece and Italy share in fn programs The combined efforts are aN aimed at building for SHAPE 1 In n the shortest possible time forces of sufficient strength to deter sion slon Our strategy then theu is to attempt to deter aggression with a show of military power Russia seems understand that kind of of talk Butt But the big question remaining Is whether or not we can build our forces fast enough to create the desired stalemate A discussion of the he problems connected with reaching reachIng reach- reach Ing ng this objective follows in a subsequent subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent article in to this series |