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Thus Article 5 does not automatically imply military action - another point on which the United States insisted when the treaty was being negotiated. As Secretary of State Dean Acheson said on March 18, 1949 (under pressure from Congress): "This [invocation of Article 5] does not mean that the United States would be automatically at war . . . The Congress alone has the power to declare war . . . [We would] be bound to take promptly the action which we deemed necessary to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area . . . [but that] decision [would be] taken in accordance with our Constitutional procedures" [emphasis added]. Mr. Acheson went on to cite two factors in making such a judgment: the "gravity of the armed attack; and the action which we believed necessary to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." Thus, it is clear that, for NATO to act as a whole, there would have to be a further decision in the North Atlantic Council, as well as a separate, national agreement by each individual ally according to its own constitutional process.