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...tests: the opening on Nov. 30 of the Geneva talks on limiting Soviet and American theater nuclear forces (T.N.E) in Europe, and Leonid Brezhnev's visit on Nov. 22 to West Germany, where opposition to the NATO missile plan is already strong enough to endanger Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's hold on the government...
...should they seek to overrun Western Europe. Grumbled a Western diplomat in Bonn: "Which sounds best to the West Germans in the present circumstances, Brezhnev waffling about his desire for peace, or Haig waffling about firing a warning nuclear shot above the Russians' heads?" Lamented a member of Schmidt's divided Social Democratic Party: "Those who say 'Better red than dead,' have certainly received a boost...
...Britain, Labor Party Leader Michael Foot is bitterly opposed to the missiles; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party is badly split on the issue; but one of the startling paradoxes of European politics is that the French Socialists, with four Communists in their Cabinet, come closest to sharing the Reagan Administration's determination to improve defense. Indeed, U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig heartily praises "the whole array of what I call security-related French attitudes...
...pacifist sentiment spreads across the Continent, Mitterrand's attitude is comforting to some fellow Europeans. West Germany's Schmidt has found the French President's public support helpful in rejecting demands by the left wing of his Social Democratic Party that he renege on the 1979 NATO decision to base new U.S. medium-range missiles in Western Europe. In Britain, where anti-NATO feelings thrive in the Labor opposition, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government welcomes Mitterrand's position. "Such a firm stand is very helpful coming from a Socialist," a top official explains...
After Reagan's remarks, some of Schmidt's Cabinet members told him that they were concerned about the matter, and the Chancellor acknowledged that Reagan's statements had been "possibly ambiguous." But Schmidt then reaffirmed his belief that the President's interpretation of NATO strategy "did not call the slightest detail into question...