Word: skybolts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gutty, impulsive, often explosively gauche, Brown has had little formal education or top-level administrative experience, but is a knowledgeable defense expert who criticized Britain's commitment to the Skybolt missile as far back as 1960. His most impressive endorsement came last week from the prestigious Economist, which argued that criticisms of his quick temper and impatience with technical detail "could also have been levied against Winston Churchill." Unlike Gaitskell, whose political philosophy was based on an essentially out-of-date view of an "insular and downtrodden England," argued the weekly, Brown's socialism is that...
...Their feeling of shock today is all the greater because it has been so long delayed. As if by some malevolent design, a whole series of frustrations and failures has beset Britannia in a few short months, deepening the nation's angst. The abrupt U.S. cancellation of the Skybolt missile rudely exposed the fact that Britain's "independent" nuclear deterrent is in fact almost wholly dependent on Washington. There was a time when U.S. Presidents sought Britain's counsel-and even approval-before taking any major initiative in world affairs; in the Cuban crisis, the most perilous...
...Britain's custom of being beastly to one's friends and sporting to one's enemies. If we were ever to behave toward those whose purpose is to bury us the way we behave toward the NATO allies, the peace movement would be up in anguish crying that the skybolt was falling...
...demands parity with Britain in the sharing of nuclear secrets, what he really is saying is that it is dangerous for sovereign states to rely on the good will of other sovereign states for their existence; and Kennedy has just provided excellent proof of this in the case of Skybolt. But France is being told that doubts regarding American willingness to jeopardize Detroit for the sake of, say, West Berlin are tantamount to treason. And such doubts might, as Reston clearly meant to suggest, result in a repetition of the American withdrawals from Europe after the two World Wars. That...
...wishful to believe, even before Skybolt, that the Six would be willing to rely on someone else's generals in every situation. Khrushchev is simply too adept at presenting limited threats over limited objectives; he has got us halfway out of West Berlin already. So long as he avoids more obvious encroachments, such as the Cuba stunt, he will always be able to make a given challenge "not worth" a major response. Thus we are asking the Europeans to believe that Soviet armored troop carriers in West Berlin mean as much to us as the missiles in Cuba. And this...