Lopez Calls Pacific Treaties Inadequate; Asks New Pact

Salvador P. Lopez, acting head of the Philippine delegation to the United Nations, last night called for "a Pacific Pact similar to the North Atlantic Pact" to replace the inadequate existing treaties.

Lopez, making a major policy speech In Littauer Auditorium before a large audience, declared that the separate Pacific treaties are not sufficient to insure security. The Philippine minister, did, however, express satisfaction with the three recent alliances concluded by the United States with the Philippines, with Australia and New Zealand, and with Japan.

"These were definite steps forward but much more is needed," he said.

Hits Post-War Smugness

The United Nations delegate also hit "American smugness and careless complacency" which he asserts prevented intelligent action in power politics. "Disarmament came at such a fantastic rate that, almost at the very first meetings of the United Nations in 1946, the Western diplomats were rendered virtually helpless by the lack of adequate military power with which to back up their policies and to enforce their decisions. The diplomats ignored the power element. It is only with the last year that they have awakened to the problem and have begun to take progressive steps."

Commenting about the Japanese Treaty Conference recently concluded in San Francisco. Lopez expressed complete accord about the way matters were handled. "The Treaty opened the way for more concrete action--toward a Pacific Pact." The Philippine Minister emphasized that such a general security pact cannot be long delayed.

"Japan is the sore spot in the whole plan," Lopez continued. "The people of the Philippines still hold mental reservations toward any mutual treaties with the Japanese. However, the Philippines and the other nations of the Pacific area must, and will eventually, overcome these animosities for their own security," Lopez concluded.