Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman agreed on the appointment of an American admiral as supreme commander ofNATOnaval forces in the Atlantic.
The French government decided to substitute a diplomatic mission for the High Commissariat of the Saar. The action created a furor in West Germany where Chancellor Adenauer demanded that the Western powers consult German wishes on the Saar question (Feb.4).
Greece and Turkey were formally admitted to NATO at a meeting of the council in Lisbon. The council also voted to provide 50 divisions for the defense of Western Europe by the end of 1952. (This figure was never attained).
The British government aligned Britain with the European Army project and accepted the extension of its commitments under the Brussels treaty to cover military assistance to West Germany and Italy.
A EUROPEAN DEFENSE COMMUNITY (EDC) was created by a Paris conference to establish a single unified command and bind West Germany to the Atlantic defense plan. The EDC charter was signed by Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and West Germany. These six countries signed a treaty with Great Britain by which the latter agreed to aid any EDC member if attacked. A NATO protocol extended that alliance's guarantees to West Germany. In a declaration signed by Britain and the United States, these powers agreed to regard any threat to the EDC as a threat to their own security.
The members of the Coal and Steel Community, meeting in a supranational assembly, voted unanimously to establish a European federal political community.
Control of Tangier. The United States, Britain, and France agreed to set aside the 1945 agreement and restore police powers in the Tangier zone to Spain.
