LONDON: The Foreign Ministers of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations today [May 17] decided to set up an `Atlantic High Command` to carry out the work of the treaty. Official announcement will not be made until tomorrow.

But a communique ... made it clear to observers that allthe 12 nations had agreed on the American idea of setting up a permanent committee of Foreign Ministers` Deputies who will meet in almost continuous session.

[Meanwhile, as reported from San Francisco,] Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, addressing the Commonwealth Club of California today [May 16], spoke of the `dangerous mixture of strong national feeling and extreme poverty` that made Asia particularly susceptible to unrest and war.

In an obvious reference to Communist inroads in South-East Asia, ... [he] said ...

because of poverty, Asians `rush hither and thither in search of new ideologies and miraculous cures which results in mental confusion and disruption`. But the United States can halt this drift if it moves into the situation with dynamic and `constructive` measures to raise Asia`s economic position, he said. -News agencies