DAVID LAWRENCE Dulles Trip Comes at Time Of Peril to Wests Unity Tribune Feby 1st 53 WASHINGTON John Foster Dulles, the new secretary of state, is going to Europe not a moment too soon. For the tragic fact is that there is no effective alliance in existence today as between the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany. Mr. Lawrence All the talk about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its growing pains, and all the discussion about the European defense community do not erase the sad truth that the European allies give the impression they really intend to go their separate ways, precisely as Mr. Dulles phrased it in his warning speech last Tuesday. Dont Seem to Understand What the Europeans, and particularly the British, dont seem to understand is that there really has been a change of administration here. Even some Washington observers who are thoroughly imbued with the policies of stagnation of the previous administration do not understand what has happened, and they look askance at the Dulles speech of last Tuesday and ask for a blueprint to tell them in detail how a cold war can be won. But the situation really stands out clearly. Stalin, like Hitler, sees the free world broken up instead of firmly allied in the cold war. The so called alliance in the free world, whether it be through NATO or the special pacts for a European defense army, isnt worth the paper it is written on today. Until a new and stronger alliance is built, Stalin will continue to win in the cold war. There is no use thinking of applying moral force to persuade allies behind the Iron Curtain when moral force isnt having the slightest effect on this side of the Iron Curtain among the free peoples supposedly bound together by an alliance. Still Trade With Enemy Some idea of the weakness of the alliance of the free nations can be gained by looking at the behavior of Britain and other countries in still sending strategic materials to the countries behind the Iron Curtain at a time when Americans are being killed and wounded by Communist supplied armies in Korea. To Britain, the affair in Korea apparently is a matter of collective security in theory only. It doesnt seem to apply to sacrifices of pounds sterling for its merchants and traders. The British Board of Trade Survey shows that Britain exported 140 million worth of rubber and other goods to the Communist world last year, and, of this total, rubber alone accounted for about 98 million of Britains total sales. Rubber is a strategic item. It can be used in military supply vehicles like trucks and in airplanes. It has countless other military uses. Russia needs rubber badly. Ceylon Sells to Reds Now, entirely apart from Britains own trade, Ceylon, a member of the British family of nations, has just concluded an agreement to sell 50,000 tons of rubber a year to Red China for the next five years. Ceylon isnt a member of the U. N. but has trade ties with Britain that could be used to bring it into line. As it is, the Ceylon incident is no different from the trade being carried on by Britain herself with Iron Curtain countries. These are some of the problems that face Secretary Dulles how to convince our own allies that we are really allied in Korea, too. The secretary might tell the European statesmen, incidentally, that, so far as the American people are concerned, there is no more reason for Americans to die in Korea than to die in Europe, and that the converse is true the American people will not go it alone in the Far East and will not go it alone in Europe. Sentiment May Develop Sooner or later an isolationist political sentiment may develop in both the Republican and Democratic parties to urge that the U. S. get out and stay out of both Asia and Europe altogether if the other nations of the free world are really not interested in a firm alliance. Each nation in a true alliance must exhibit the utmost fidelity instead of trying to retain commercial advantages while blood is being spilled supposedly for the cause of collective security. Thats the essence of the Dulles mission to Europe.