ATLANTIC PACT DEFENCE PLANS ARE DISCUSSED
LONDON, August.2 (Rec. 1.5 p >m .)_ —The American Joint Chiefs of Staff will meet the British Chiefs of Staff, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser, Field-Marshal Sir William Slim,'and Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder tomorrow. On Thursday thev will meet the Danish Chiefs of Staff and later the Norwegian before flying to Paris.
In Paris they will have talks on Friday with’Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery and the military leaders of France, Belgium and Holland.
The United States Army Chief of Staff, General Omar Bradley, said in an interview in Grafen-
wolir today that, it, was to be expected that all members of the Western Union would function within the Atlantic Pffct. of which they were memebfs. but it still had to be decided whether the Atlantic Pact would supersede the Western Union Paet. He .hoped that the military organisation envisaged in the Atlantic Pact would be functioning one year after all the signatories had ratified the pact.
The American Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that the American troops in Germany were ready for any emergency. They disclosed that jet fighters will replace all standard-type planes in .Germany.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1949, Page 5
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