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...Alliances: "Internationally, Britain's strength rests upon a tripod of the Commonwealth, Europe, and the Atlantic Alliance. But a tripod is a particularly uncomfortable seat if one leg is shorter and weaker than the other, and so it must be the positive purpose of our foreign policy to strengthen all three...
...other message was that Germans must do their utmost to strengthen their new alliance with France, since the two nations' basic interests are "identical." Adenauer now had perfunctory praise for the U.S. allies, whom he had once hailed as "the best Europeans of all"; the British he had scornfully dismissed as only "half-friends...
...once said, "I don't know what my successors will do if they are left to do as they please." Adenauer knows well that neither Erhard nor Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder shares his ideas about foreign policy. In "the Erhard era," Bonn will presumably use its influence to strengthen the Atlantic Alliance and bring Britain into the Common Market. The new Chancellor seems determined to resist Charles de Gaulle's vision of an exclusive, inward-looking Europe dominated by France, and to reject France's proffered membership in an independent European deterrent based on De Gaulle...
Many Republicans have raised political objections to the sale. Senator Goldwater accuses the President of establishing a "Soviet-American mutual aid society," and former vice-President Nixon claims we are "hurting the cause of freedom." Instead, the President's decision will strengthen recent attempts to case world tension. The Russians need grain and the United States has too much; common ground has been found and the opportunity for a further Cold War thaw should not be bypassed...
...railroads with merger applications before the Interstate Commerce Commission, none are more eager to unite than the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central. The Central lost $4.4 million and the Pennsy $1.1 million during 1963's first half. Both badly need to strengthen their competitive positions, particularly since the rich Chesapeake & Ohio has already gained ICC approval to control the Baltimore & Ohio, and the well-run Norfolk & Western appears certain to win an O.K. to merge with the Wabash and Nickel Plate...