NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

EXECUTIVE L, EIGHTY-FIRST CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY

PART 1
ADMINISTRATION WITNESSES
APRIL 27, 28, 29, MAY 2, AND 3, 1949

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations

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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 1949

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COMMITTEE ON FO 'EIGN RELATIONS

TOM CONNALLY, Texas, Chairman WALTER F. GEORGE, Georgia

ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

ALEXANDER WILEY, Wisconsin MILLARD E. TYDINGS, Maryland

H. ALEXANDER SMITH, New Jersey CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida

BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER, Iowa THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, Rhode Island HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR., Massachusetts BRIEN MCMAHON, Connecticut J. W. FULBRIGHT, Arkansas

FRANCIS O. Wilcox, Chief of Staff

C. C. O'DAY, Clerk
RICHARD H. HEINDEL, Staff Associate

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Statements by-

Hon. Dean G. Acheson, Secretary of State---

Hon. Warren R. Austin, Chief, United States Mission to the United