§ 88. Mr. Shinwellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which agreements, to which we are a party, provide for assistance to Germany by the United States of America in the event of an aggression against that country.
§ Mr. NuttingIn New York in September, 1950, the French, United Kingdom and United States Governments declared that they would treat any attack against the Federal Republic or Berlin from any quarter as an attack on themselves.
In Lisbon, in February of this year, as I informed the House on 28th February, the North Atlantic Council agreed that Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty would apply in the event of an attack upon any member of the European Defence Community. A Protocol in that sense will be signed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Powers when the European Defence Community Treaty has been signed and will become effective when that Treaty becomes effective.