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Washington D. C. As Viewed
By Tour Senator,
A. Willis Robertson
UNITY OF EUROPE HOLDS KEY TO U. S. POLICIES
A highlight of last week in Washington, for me, was the appearance of Secretary of State Dulles before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to report on his recen^ observations in Europe.
I am riot a member of the committee but the subject matter of this hearing was of vital concern to me in connection wth my work on the Appropriations and Banking and Currency Committees. We must consider the appropriations for our defense establishment and for foreign aid programs. Thq possibility of war or peace also will influence the Banking and Currency Committee’s decision on whether or not economic controls will be needed in the future.
We will not know until after the April meeting in Paris of the six tentative members of the European Defense Community whether or not they can agree upon the organization of a unified Europeah Army. Mr. Dulles said, however, that he was hopeful but not certain as to the carrying out of the NATO agreement proposed at the Lisbon Conference.
If we fail to bring the French , and Germans together on the issue of a German army integrated with an International army, or as a separate force, the Eisenhower Administration will have to recast its foreign policy .and the.implications.of doing so-are very serious. What we do in Korea, what European forces we can assemble to block Communism in Europe and what we do with respect to the future trade between the U.S. and Europe are problems closely tied together. Much will depend on whether there is developed a political and economic unity of the European nations similar to that which the American Colonies accepted when our Constitution was adopted. When I addressed the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Bern, Switzerland last August, I pointed out that this country would
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