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Almost as old as NATO itself is the "disarray" that seems to haunt its councils. Yet allied differences are not so much symptoms of any deep-rooted disunity as the result of NATO's military effectiveness. Because they know that they are secure behind the U.S. nuclear shield, few European nations are eager to build up conventional forces for which they see little use. At the same time, as they have grown more powerful and prosperous, Europeans have come to question total U.S. control of nuclear weapons for the foreseeable future. Thus dependence breeds mistrust...
Certainly. Park's withdrawal and Kim's fall from grace failed to turn up any promising new political leaders. The junta-controlled Democratic-Republican Party is in floundering disarray, while the three other major civilian parties, which are also riven by internal dissension, lack any broad base of popular support. Thus, few South Koreans expect that Park will remain long in the wings. With inflation rampant and unemployment at a record high, man)' politicians suspect that Park is deliberately saddling them with chaos, that in his own good time, he may once again "save" the country...
Undeniably, the Washington decision strengthens De Gaulle's hand in the forthcoming referendum and elections. To political opponents who have criticized him for putting NATO in disarray, De Gaulle can now answer that if the U.S. were really quarreling with France, it would not be selling her a nuclear-powered sub. To Frenchmen and other Europeans who have opposed de Gaulle's independent nuclear force, he can cite the Nautilus sale as proof that even the U.S. accepts France as a nuclear power...
...Western alliance, as usu al, seemed in disarray, and practical moves toward Western European unity were for the time being suspended. Yet the relentless logic of what Harold Macmillan called Europe's new Renaissance made it plain that union will come, and that it will strengthen the alliance...
...television one afternoon last week, De Gaulle warned that unless he got the massive support he wanted, he might abandon France to the political and economic disarray from which he had rescued it in 1958. Cried De Gaulle: "The weight and influence of France, so recently considered the 'sick man of Europe,' are recognized today throughout the world!" Taking personal credit-with good reason-for France's present political stability, sound money and favorable trade balance, he said: "For myself, each yes that you give me will be proof of your confidence and your encouragement...