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...addition, establishing a European buffer zone can herald solutions to some of the outstanding political problems between Russia and the United States. Neutralizing a trial region might lead to a general European security pact including both East and West. Successful negotiations could also promote agreement on troop quotas for the leading Western and Communist nations...
...disadvantages of the Stassen plan from the West's point of view result principally from short-term problems. Germany's NATO contributions would be sacrificed; however, the Federal Republic presently plans to contribute only one third of its original troop commitment. Since it is now committed to NATO membership, the Adenauer government would have to revise its foregn policy extensively. But if the United States invited German discussion on European disarmament, Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union could start changing its policy without excessively losing face before the Social Democrats...
Lockwood was a four-event skier at Northwood School, Lake Placid, N.Y., and served in the Ski Troops during World War II. He also acted as troop instructor for a time. He is a graduate of Trinity College and did graduate work at Princeton...
Advance was not quite the word of the day: there were some more worried by retreat. The continental nations were irritated by the British decision to withdraw some 13,000 troops from Europe within a year and to put their chief reliance in nuclear weapons. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau argued heatedly that unless conventional forces were maintained, NATO would have to use nuclear weapons in even a minor defensive action, and thus might touch off an atomic holocaust. Norway and 'The Netherlands were also worried about having nothing but nuclear eggs in the basket. Aware...
...island once more. She is tiptoeing out of a political system built in Europe around NATO." Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury called reliance on atomic arms a "facile policy," and not one for France, which prefers to think there will always be conventional wars. (European nations worried by British troop withdrawals from Europe can always lighten their fears by making good the deficiencies in their own troop commitments to NATO.) In West Germany, which inducted its first 10.000 draftees last week, Konrad Adenauer seized the occasion to demand atomic weapons for his own army (Germany is forbidden to produce...