The meeting was expected to last two days. Actually, it was over in six hours. "It was found," wrote one Washington newsman, reporting a phenomenon rare in international councils today, "that areas of disagreement on practical steps to be taken were considerably fewer than had been expected." The happy meeting consisted of the Atlantic Treaty nations' defense ministers or their representatives, collectively known as the Defense Committee. They had come to Washington to set up and set in motion the defense apparatus outlined by their colleagues, the foreign ministers, last month (TIME, Sept. 26).
Under the chairmanship of U.S. Defense...
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