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Dulles off for States after tour of Europe

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West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, at right with hat, shakes hands with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the Bonn airport in February, 1953. At far left id Mutual Security Administrator and former Minnesota Gov. Harold Stassen.
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles leads the way at Bonn, followed by Chancellor Adenauer and Gov. Stassen.

LUXEMBOURG — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Administrator Harold E. Stassen took off from Luxembourg's airport tonight for Washington, ending their quick survey of Western Europe.

On their final day in Europe, they conferred with officials of the six-nation Schuman Plan and with Luxembourg government leaders.

Dulles said he would report directly to President Eisenhower on his arrival in Washington tomorrow.

Dulles ended his swing through Western European states today with the warning they must unite or be engulfed in war.

Climaxing his nine-day foreign policy survey which began a week ago Saturday in Rome, the secretary urged Schuman Plan officials to push on to greater unification if they want to maintain world peace. In a brief public session with leaders of the six-nation steel and coal community, Dulles praised their merger of French, West. German. Italian and Benelux basic industries as the "first practical beginning" of European union. He added:

"The American people and our Government are convinced that world peace can he safeguarded only by creative efforts which equal the magnitude of the perils threatening peace."