SENATOR TAFT’S VIEWS ON ARMS FOR EUROPE
(Recd. 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 25.
Senator Robert Taft (Republican, Ohio) said today that he believes that if the United States rearms Europe, particularly Norway, it “is more likely to lead to a new military attack by Russia” than to world peace. The programme now being drafted is expected to call for an outlay of between 1,000,000,000 and 2,000,000,000 dollars for arms for Western Europe. Senator Taft made the statement as the representatives of seven Western Powers met at the State Department for the final phase of the North Atlantic Security Pact negotiations. He said he was not necessarily going to oppose the arms programme, but would reserve his judgment until the programme was formulated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 February 1949, Page 5
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