SECURITY IN FAR EAST

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27149, 19 September 1953, Page 7

SECURITY IN FAR EAST

U.S. Calls For New Mutual Pact NEW YORK, September 17. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Alexander Wiley) today called for a mutual security pact with the Far East nations. He proposed this as part of a fourpoint foreign programme for Pacific defence. As other steps, he proposed a United States declaration that it would meeet armed aggression anywhere with whatever action its interests required, and a continuation of financial aid and efforts to convince the countries of Asia that their national aspirations can best be achieved on the side of the free world. Senator Wiley said the security of the Far East was every bit as important as the security of Western Europe, which was covered by the North Atlantic Treaty, and Latin America, which was covered by the Rio Treaty.

He said: “What we need to do now, as soon as the countries of the Far East are ready to assume the obligations involved, is to move ahead with a third great pact for the Far East.” The Senator urged Americans not to help Moscow by magnifying the differences between the United States and Britain.

The fact that the two nations disagreed in respect of a particular policy was not nearly so important as the fact that they continued to agree on their common goals and work together to achieve them