WESTERN UNION DISCUSSES DEFENCE PLANS
(Recd. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 14
Fourteen Cabinet Ministers met in London for the first session of the Western Union Consultative Council today, says Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent. Their main problem was to draft estimates for Western Union defence in view of the imminent signing of the Atlantic Pact. The formal linking of Western Union defence with the defence plans of the United States and Canada—which the Atlantic Pact aims to achieve—means that the Western Union Powers must revise the estimates of their needs for United States aid. Because of this the delegations of Britain, France, Belgium and Holland included the Foreign Ministers, Defence Ministers and Finance Ministers of each country. Luxemburg was represented by the Prime Minister, M. Pierre Dupond and the Foreign Minister, M. Joseph Nech.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 March 1949, Page 5
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