GERMAN SHARE IN WEST DEFENCE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9

GERMAN SHARE IN WEST DEFENCE

Problems Facing “Big Three” (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Western Germany's contribution to ' European defence, the revision of the Italian peace treaty and the possibility of Japan making separate peace treaties with Communist China and India are important subjects for discussion by the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and the United States. The United States Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) indicated this at a news conference to-day. He said that a good deal of time at the conference wou’d probably be spent on consideration of Western Germany’s role in the defence of Europe, and he hoped for a decision on Germany’s future soon. Questions to be decided about Germany were the number of troops, if any, to be included in General Eisenhower’s army, and the political relationship of the Western Powers to the Federal Republic. Of Italy’s request for changes in her peace treaty, Mr Acheson said that Russia’s power of veto would not necessarily block any proposal for rearmament. It was also important, he said, that Italy and Jugoslavia should decide the future of Trieste, which had been a trouble spot in the world for years.