SECURITY TREATY WITH ALLIES: GERMAN REQUEST

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1950, Page 5

SECURITY TREATY WITH ALLIES: GERMAN REQUEST

BONN, December 1 (Rec. 11.30 a.m.). —The West German Chancellor, Dr K. Adenauer, today repeated his request for a security treaty.between West Germany and the occupying Powers. It was officially stated that the Allies told him that the request had been referred to the Governments of Britain, the United States, and France.

Dr Adenauer, in a four-hour meeting with the Allied High Commission, urged that relations between his Government and the Allies should be put on a contractual basis, to encourage the German people to throw in their lot with other nations in the common defence of the West. Dr Adenauer told the High Commissioners that the German people had gained the impression that the Allies were keeping far more powers than they were giving to the Germans. The Chancellor has had internal political difficulties to contend with in meeting the Allied terms for modification of the occupation statute. Election gains by the antLrearmarnent Socialists have made it uncertain whether he could win Parliamentary support for the assurances he had'to give in return for a revision of the statute.