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THIE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28,
WEEKEND by Friell
"Kilts, Trews, kilts, trows! A plague on both your houses!"
NATO
OUNCIL
Gentlemen, who is going to pay for the two divisions required for "police action at the frish- Italian return match?"
TOYS
SUPER ELECTRIC RAILWAY
"You can make your own timetables and work out running costs and don't forget there is a
ten per cent wage claim pending."
U.S.
APPROPRIATIONE
What, we wont is a
"I'm Anti-anti-missile missile.
weapon that hits back first!"
HOUSE OF
LORDS
LIFE PEERS
FOR LENDE
"But they'd get out after ten or twelve years for good
behaviour!"
NATO
"Perhaps my attack on Lord Salisbury was a bit þörsóñàí but so was he-suygesting the Lords must bo streamlined."
PALAIS DE CHAILLOT
"Ah, but do we want to talk Turkey to Bulganin, old boy-that will bring up Syria and the whole Middle East."
"Mimi, Fili, Marie! President Eisenhower hos
gone to bed early again!"
OPINION POLL
"37 per cent, would vote for a Foolish Premier, 33 per cent. for a Rude and Arrogant Premier: 21 por rent prefer a coalition and 9 per cent, thought o Premice was a first night!"
'GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN,
Hiftolidón' Rapitis-sérülte)
THE peace of the world and the ́survival of Britain are both at stake.
As the leaders of Nato met in Paris, the alliance is torn by dja sensions. The French struggle in Algeria, arms for Tunis, Cyprus, the plight of Dutch nationals in Indonésia, nuclear strategy, British defence policy, the maintenance of forces in Germany all these questions divide the European members of Nato,
Whose fault is all this? Have the countries of Western Europe simul. taneously gone mad, or become sud- lenly unreasonable and distrustful? do not think so."
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When a tenth, goes sour and falls be low its form, one does not asume there is something wrong with every single one of its members: One looks first for a fallure of leadership.
What is wrong with Nato is that the United States, the senior partner in the alliance, is itself leaderless. And in the -absence of American leadership to meet the problems of today, the United States hus become the victim of its own past follies.
H
The umbrella
IT IS
TIME WE
STOOD
of the United States is a sick nad harassed man, forced to can Britain look to continue in harness ns much by Tow
The Ameried for support
Importunities of power- оп hungry politicians as by his own Cyprus, after our experiences rease of duty. betere and after the Sucz crisis?
No wonder that American har faltered while
UP TO DULLES
has bothered to explain it since tasting: belace of power is the the Prime Minister brought #world. This "third Interest" back from Washington,
could prevent A third world
There has been one short fureign afalra debate In the Commons since then. and tre Government spokesman flu- What hope can the Dutch pulley
tely refused to answer questions have
American of
sym- Russian threat zrows with bout it. Now the Guvernunt pathy, when
It was, Roose- Russian presiige. velt's rabid anti-colonialism No wonder that that handed Indonesia over to Europe looks anarchy and sowed the seeds of askancé across the the troubles In Malaya and Atlantic and seeks Indo-Chinn?
What sort
bf ally do the
French ace in America, after
Suez and the Tunisian arms
, deliveries?
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No wonder
10 redsurance,
More sacrifices?
that Eisenhower, WHAT,
by
ANGUS MAUDE
then.
~Tory M.P. for
Ealing South
to
known and trusted by most of should Bri- the European members of Nato tain do?
Is this
has rojects demand for a de bate befete deel- elons e reached At Nato..
'Third
interest'
is time
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FOR
ALTHOUGH THIE
OUTLOOK NOW MAY DE
STORMY,
BE
THERE COULD ADEQUATE
With LEADERSHIP. SUNSHINE AHEAD.
LASTING
Krushchev does not warska war that will destroy the Krej- n. It may be that there aré, får greater, triumphs ahead of him aleng the road of peaceful deve-
pinent at home.
Thin in Britain's chancé. Wo must not play into Krush- Etop art recon- chev's hands by further divid-
sider our
post-
tion. It is time to ing and · weakening: the West.
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Commander-iii- the moment as n former Chief at Shape, has felt it neces-
muke ourselves still more de- stand firm for British interesi Bet.neither must we tainely at- Bory to risk his life and health
American policies pendent
of and to build up British strength, quitsee' on the viguries American policy? once more in a desperate effort
Ought we We shall never have better that barni ua, ánd our trends
for the to dispel these doubts on the
now to make still further sacrl chance to bargain, spot, What Dulles has rown, the flees of sovereignty and kide- Americans are frightened and President Is forced to resp.
pendence? Is this the lime tu confused. We must, by our own put still more British forces un Influence and leadership, rebuild der American control?
the Western alliance on a more stable basis,
Consider the pront and loss account of American policy. The Nato alliance was bullt up under the umbrella of the United States nuclear deterrent; it was
that realised
Russia
would ultimately berly to catch up in nuclear strength, and the West- ern Powers proposed to build up their conventional forces and lay the foundations of an unchal- lengeable lead in bailistic missiles.
What has happened?. Russin still has an overwhelming sup eriority in ground forces, Al- most the whole French Army is engaged in Algerla, the Germans have scarcely started to innke an effective contribullon, And Britain is already reducing her forces for economic reasons probably below the safety level. The US, air forces still dominate The skics at the world; but high above them two Russlan satellites contemptuous- | ly circle the globe, while the American spree rockel Des a twisted henp ef burned-out Lefuse. The Russian lend in long-range missiles 13 un- questionable,
While all this has been going 011 Britain. has been virtually driven out of the Middle East: The Americans have got one blundering foot. insecurely planted there--but the Russians { are there loo.. And that is one thing that Western foreign policy has aimed to: genero Lions to prevent.
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The primary object DI ù country's foreign policy is preserve and further the inter- esis of that country. No matter, how high-minded may be the utterances of leaders, this thet how all countries approach the business of diplomacy:
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It is as true of Dulles as of Krushchev, of Nehru as of Nasser. But when a country sets out to create and leod a military alliance it has got to consider the inferesis of its allies as well as its own.
America's policy
THE
HE primary American eb- jcetiye la to keep Commun- Jim as far as possile from the shores of the United States, to ensure that any battles that have to be fought are fought on other peoples' soll, and to push vulner- able bases us for forward enn be arranged.
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No one can blame her for this and of botisé the cburities of Western Europe share a similar interest in the contalument of Communlks, But these countries have other, Individual. Interests their own, some of them vitul. If America, so far from helping to defend these, somellines KOOSTIS setively to seek, in destroy them, the alliance will not prosper.
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At this critical time, when peace is menaced and the Westert world is full of doubts and stresses, what a. contrast, bé- tween the Kremlin bind the White House!
Rusila in led by a dominating personality, full of vitality, in-. polenço, and... cinning with a Hair for propri anda and cupid=" mallë. makkwuvre. The FreePunt
We do not even know how deeply we are already card- milted.
and fall in their own àvošta cbjcets,
We can no longer afford fit bling or negative direeliph. It British statesmanship, with If Britain had the will, she its long traditions, enn measure We do not know could unite the interests of up to the challenge of tuday, what the "doctrine of Inter- the
and of Britain can still save the World Commonwenlli dependence" means, as no one
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