GERMAN DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION
Dispute With Britain And U.S. Likely
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, December 14. A battle is looming between Britain and the United States on the one hand and Western Germany on the other over the contributions Germany will make to the common N.A.T.O. defence effort, says the “Scotsman.” The matter is expected to be brought up at the N.A.T.O. Council meeting in Paris this week when the council considers the programme for next year and the provisional programmes for succeeding years.
Britain and America believe Western Germany can bear a burden roughly the size of that of the other major N.A.T.O. Powers. Both support the N.A.T.O. estimate that she can afford to spend some £4,300,000,000 on defence in the next three years. Germany’s defence budget for next year was recently given its first reading in the Bundestag. It provides only £750,000,000 for defence. Granted that spending in the first year will be lower than in years which follow, this is far below what N.A.T.O. believes she could afford for the first year, the “Scotsman” said.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27533, 15 December 1954, Page 13
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