Blueprint

Almost ignored in the turmoil over the Soviet-U.S. exchange of notes was a document that might prove the most important of the week. It was a "working paper" submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. It was the bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security.

Cast in the form of a Senate resolution, it reaffirmed the U.S.'s determination to base its policy on U.N. as now constituted, but to work for gradual revision of the veto power. It laid down the legal basis for U.S. plans to organize collective security within that framework. These called for development of regional arrangements for collective self-defense under Article 51, and the "association" of the U.S. with such groupings. Vandenberg obviously had in mind Europe's Western Union.

These regional pacts, the resolution stipulated, must be based on "selfhelp and mutual aid." The Western Union countries would have to show they meant business. Said Vandenberg: the resolution "applies to security the same formula we have applied to economic recovery."

If approved, the resolution would give tacit approval to a new departure in U.S. foreign policy--the alignment of the U.S. with Europe, for the first time in its peacetime history, for mutual defense.

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