Atlantic Alliance, to have two-way contacts across the
iron curtain where and when these may be mutually
advantageous.
Despite the disappointments of last summer
we remain hopeful of ultimate developments on both sides
of the curtain which may make peaceful co-existence an
enduring reality, and enable such harbingers of a more
secure future as the Test Ban Treaty and the Non-Prolifer-
ation Treaty to be followed by other measures of secure,
multilateral disarmament, and ultimately by a satisfactory,
permanent settlement of the outstanding problems of Europe,
still left over from the last war. But the wedge-driving
proclivities of the Kremlin must never be over-looked and
safety in any approach to detente depends upon all members
of the Atlantic Alliance being on their guard against this,
and keeping one another informed of what each is doing or
planning.
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Within the Atlantic Alliance we in the United Kingdom
are most eager to promote the greater unity of Europe, in
the fields of foreign policy and defence as well as in the
economic field. A more united Europe should be a stronger
as well as a more prosperous Europe, and a more valuable
pillar of the whole Alliance. A Europe of six countries
only, excluding the United Kingdom and the other states
also applicants for membership of the European Economic
Community, could never achieve the full potentialists of
the continent. And if Europe should be united only in the
fields covered by the Treaty of Rome again it could not
play its most effective part in world affairs.
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