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Safeguard. But the West had learned to give Soviet offers a wary welcome. After months of hard negotiations, a government for Western Germany was nearly a reality. Secretary of State Dean Acheson made it clear that the U.S. would not allow the Russians to talk Western Germany to death by delays; nor would it permit any German government to be hamstrung by re-establishment of a Russian veto. "The people of Western Germany may rest assured," said Acheson, "that this Government will agree to no general solution for Germany into which the basic safeguards and benefits of the existing Western...
Secretary of State Acheson is pushing hard for an arms program to accompany his North Atlantic Pact. The hearings on the treaty will probably last until mid-May, with the vote on the arms program itself coming up around June. Until then Mr. Acheson should be in for a long fight. We hope he is unsuccessful...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
...Arms aid is certainly not the only morale-lifter, even if the recent moves of the U. S. towards committing itself to European military intervention, if only in case of war, have sent hopes climbing in the West. Furthermore, a lot of people think that some of the governments Acheson wants to arm don't warrant this elevated morale--that aid would be channeled into uses (such as the Dutch found for their equipment in Indonesia) which would be very far from the democratic ideals the Pact is supposed to reinforce...
...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...