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Lorelei Umbrella. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara started off in NATO's huge conference room, nicknamed the Cathedral, by once again trying to answer the basic Gaullist suspicion that the U.S. might not defend Europe. In case of an all-out war, said McNamara, the alternative of "Europe or the...
In Parliament later. Wilson unveiled the proposed ingredients of his suggested Atlantic Nuclear Force: most of Britain's aging V-bombers: the four or five Polaris submarines Britain is building with U.S. assistance; and even some mixed manning, but-hopefully-not on surface vessels, "the least desirable" solution. Wilson...
But Wilson stood firm on British insistence that an MLF must be broader than the U.S. proposal for a fleet of 25 ships armed with nuclear missiles and manned by crews of mixed nationality. He suggested that Britain might commit its entire nuclear deterrent, including V-bombers and Polaris submarines...
Though the dream is far from dead, it has seldom been more obscure and entangled in controversy than this week as the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization gather in the great A-shaped building in Paris at the head of Avenue Foch. The U.S. and France seem...
Qualified Endorsement. The British think they have a partial answer. Prime Minister Harold Wilson proposes to broaden the scope of MLF to include land-based missiles, three of five British Polaris subs, and various aircraft. This sprawling scheme would greatly dilute the German contribution.