AGREEMENT BY MR DULLES

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27442, 31 August 1954, Page 11

AGREEMENT BY MR DULLES

General Outline Of Alliance

(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 29. A Washington dispatch to the "New York Times” tonight said that Mr John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State, was understood to have obtained agreement in advance from the participants in the forthcoming eight-nation Manila talks on the general outline of a South-east Asian alliance. ,

Mr Dulles leaves for Manila on Tuesday to discuss the formation of such a pact with the representatives of Britain, France, Australian New Zealand. Thailand, the Philippines and Pakistan. The “New York Times" correspondent, Dana Adams Smith, whose report was written for Monday’s edition, said that, in the hope of drawing other countries into the alliance later, it was expected that it would be constructed on, three levels—mutual defence, mutual economic assistance and mutual assistance in fighting subversion. This represented a considerable development of Mr Dulles's ideas since last March when he called for “united action” to save South-east Asia. He had in effect come to terms with the British, who had insisted from the beginning that military arrangements alone cpuld not stop the Communists in Asia and that the eventual co-opera-tion of India and other so-called "neutralist” powers of Asia was essential.

Fundamental Differences Smith said some issues still remained to be settled, but they were more matters of emphasis than fundamental differences. He said they were as follows: “1. Should the military pact create some kind of unified command to implement precise military commitments? Or would it be wiser at this stage to nations committed to Consult and take appropriate action in/time of danger? “Thailand, the Philippines and Aus- . tralia are reported to favour the unified command and a military commitment that would acquire all automatically to defend any participant that is attacked. “The United States and Britain take the view that such an attempt to create a South-east Aston pact, patterned after the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, is premature. ‘“Mr Dulles has said the military Pattern the United States wants may e discerned in the mutual defence pacts it has already concluded with Australia and New Zealand, with the Philippines and with South Korea. . "2. Should economic and anti-sub-version objectives be built into the treaty, put into a separate treaty, or carried out by non-treaty organisms? “Many observers regard the economic aspect as the most important of all because on it rests the hope of winning eventual participation of other Asian nations. The' foreign operations administration has worked out a project that is understood to call for increased lateral economic cooperation among the countries of South-east Asia. “South-east Aslan diplomats who have been studying the issue in Washington have remarked, however, that the scruples of the ‘neutralists" are not likely to be overcome by anything less than the prospect of substantial United States economic aid—of the kind the United States once provided Europe under the Marshall Plan.”

Warning To Women Smokers (Ree. 11 p.m.) ADELAIDE, August 30. Professor Robert Shaw, an American cancer expert, said today that the time was approaching when lung cancer would take a toll of women smokers. as it had with men.

“Unless heavy women smokers see the red for danger signs as they have affected men, the time is close when they, too, are in danger of contractinc cancer,? Dr. Shaw said. “It takes upward of 20 years for heavy smoking to cause cancer. The only reason for the low incidence of cancer due to smoking among women is because' they have been smoking as a habit only since the 1920’5. "There is no reason for women smokers to feel complacent, even though the present ratio between men and women, relative to cancer from smoking, is eight to one,” he added.