Strength for the West.

The article focuses on the signing of the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community between the Foreign Ministers of Italy, France, West Germany and Benelux in Western Europe in 1952. The treaty aims to weld 400,000 armed officers from Germany into a supranational European National which will be led by the North Atlantic Treaty Commander Matt Ridgway. Another purpose of the development of the agreement is for the support of common security as well as the safeguard of peace.