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...Viet Nam far transcends Viet Nam. From the Rhine to the Mekong River, 42 nations of the free world have formal military alliances with the U.S. Each rests on Washington's pledge of physical protection. If that assurance has, after two decades, lost much of its immediacy for Western Europe, it is nevertheless an assurance that can not exist if it is half doubted and half believed. If the Pax Americana is to be credible anywhere, it must be credible everywhere...
Material Sharing. As the review board currently sees Britain's future defense posture, the 62,000-man Army of the Rhine must be maintained. Not only does it fill Britain's NATO ground commitment and give London a foothold in continental Europe, but also serves as a kind of strategic reserve which Britain uses to shuttle forces into African and Middle Eastern trouble, spots. The foreign exchange costs are high ($504 million a year), but the West Germans during the past year have come a long way toward offsetting those costs, and the British facilities in Germany would...
...months, U.S., British and Continental firms will bid for two plants to be built in Belgium and one in Italy, each of which will cost upwards of $100 million. A.E.G. and Siemens are grimly competing for a $60 million plant in southern Germany, and directly across the Rhine in Switzerland Westinghouse and G.E. are fighting over an interconnecting plant. Another fascinating market lies east of the Iron Curtain. West ern nations are now in the mood to consider bids from the satellites-provided that they agree to let inspectors check regularly that the atoms are used only for peaceful power...
...population centers at last an advantage rather than a threat. Sleek high-rise apartments tower over half-timbered villages. Factory smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries to $1.6 billion in ten years. Last week the Alsatian Regional Development Organization...
...removed a Maginot Line of trade barriers that sat between France and its neighbors. French firms, actually encouraged by the government to stay away from the danger zone between the wars, began to discover the province and its opportunities: ample land and labor force, the broad highway of the Rhine, convenient location...