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of a new member to the North Atlantic Treaty was, in effect, a new treaty with that
nation, extending all the obligations of the United States under the treaty to the
if it
as
new nation and receiving in return the obligations of that country. And de that/were
done in that way, would require the consent of the Senate, we should ask the President
not to rush into a decision about this because it affected his prerogatives, but think
it over and let me know. He telephoned me later in the day that he thought that was
correct advice and that I was authorized to go ahead.
A few comments on the hearings.
Sen. Vanderberg raised a couple of questions
which were very import nt to get straightened out. The first one was"did the North
to
Atlentic Treaty in Art. 3 require the U.S./go forward with the military assistance bill,"
by
to
in other words were we commiting ourselves 135 the Treaty ing a series of mutual assis-
tance
bills.
F1
have
said
in
my
statement
that
the
Art.
3
did
not
require
us
to
undertake
any specific military assistance programy that it did place upon us the acceptance of
the principle that there should be rutual aid, and that required the honest judg-
ment of the representatives of the United States in Congress as to what was necessary
to carry out that principle. They could not, in dy judgment, go back on the principle,
simply by saying their judgment required one cent (?), it was a matter on which
you had adopted a principle, just as you adopt the principle of the anti-trust laws.
administratively
Nou the question is how do you go about/carrying that out, and that was q question for
the Senate
?
the House as well as the government. Vandenberg brought that all out
and I didn't argue about it because simply he wanted to have it on the record. The
next thing that he brought out was this autonatic declaration of war. Did the treaty
require the automatic declaration of war, and we said that it did not. We got that and
on the record. We then talked about what happened when a countay went Communist, 11
it were a member of the North Atlantic Treaty, and I pointed out that if it did, it
would obviously align itself not with the Treaty nations but with those against whom
they were preparing to defend themselvos and that just neant that you had to conclude
of
a reorientation of the policy that nation and some way would have to be found
to request (?) that formally and legally. That secmed to satisfy them. Then we
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