FULL TEXT OF TREATY PUBLISHED IN SEVEN CAPITALS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14931, 19 March 1949, Page 3

FULL TEXT OF TREATY PUBLISHED IN SEVEN CAPITALS

Attack On Any One Signatory Will Set In Notion Forces 0! All Parties PERMANENT COUNCIL TO GIVE EFFECT TO ARRANGEMENT London. March 18. The text of the proposed Atlantic Pact has been published in London and simultaneously in the capitals of the other seven drafting powers. The Pact, to be known as the North Atlantic Treaty, consists of 14 articles, and it is to run for 20 years, but may be reviewed at the end of ten. It is to come into force when it has been ratified hy the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The purpose of the Pact as defined in the preamble, is to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area. The Pact therefore provides in Article 5, that an armed attack on any one of its signatories in Europe and North America, is to be considered an attack upon all.

Each country signing the Pact, therefore, pledges itself immediately to take any measures considered necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

within its scope. Apart from these specific defence arrangements, the Pact also provides that the signatories are to consult together i'f it appears that any of them are threatened. A Permanent North Atlantic Council is to be set up to give effect to the Treaty. It will have under it a number of expert committees, particularly a defence committee, which is to be set up immediately. This Defence Committee is to be responsible for helping the parties' to the Pact, maintain and develop self-defenceo by means of self-help and mutual aid.

The provisions of the Pact will come into force at once in case of an armed attack of the territories of any one of the parties in Europe or North America.

This territory includes the Algerian departments of France in North Africa, and islands under the jurisdiction of any party in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

An armed attack upon the occupation forces of any party in Europe or upon the ships or aircraft of any of the parties in the North Atlantic area will also set in motion the collective defence machinery of the Pact.

The proposed Pact does not in anyway conflict with the responsibilitier of the signatories to the United Nations.

A diplomatic correspondent says the text of the Pact was sent to the Commonwealth Governments well in advance of publication. The Treaty is to be signed in Washington on April 4.

This means that occupation troops in Western Germany, in Berlin, in Western Austria and in Trieste, fall