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...NATO ALLIANCE. Kennedy and Macmillan agreed that NATO's military, political and economic joints are creaking badly. Kennedy summoned former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who had just completed a study of NATO, to present tentative U.S. views. In the conversations that followed, the President urged that NATO's European members place a high priority on building up NATO's conventional military forces. The U.S., he said, is willing to provide NATO with nuclear capability, probably in the form of Polaris submarines and medium-range ballistic missiles-but nuclear fire control must remain in U.S. hands. Macmillan...
SOUTHEAST ASIA. A fortnight ago at Key West, Kennedy and Macmillan had agreed to push for -a cease-fire in Laos that would be followed by a 14-nation conference and, presumably, an eventual coalition government including members of the Communist-led Pathet Lao. The Lao tian crisis therefore came in for only brief discussion last week. But Kennedy and Macmillan agreed that the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam is just as dangerous as Laos, decided to step up arms shipments to the friendly Diem government...
ECONOMICS. One of the first subjects Macmillan brought up was that of international trade. He reminded the President that the British have long been seeking "greater liquidity"-meaning large amounts of international reserves that could be borrowed by such big trading nations as Britain to avoid periodic crises of the pound. Such an international reserve system, said Macmillan, would enable the whole Atlantic community to increase trade and to ride out slack periods. Both Macmillan and Kennedy agreed that much of the U.S.'s recent gold drainage was due to an imbalance in interest rates between...
...CHINA. Kennedy and Macmillan agreed to disagree about the admission of Communist China to the United Nations...
...Macmillan noted that the issue will al most certainly come to a U.N. vote this year-and when it does, Britain will cast an aye ballot...