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THAT'S THE LATEST JUDGMENT ABOUT NATO IS NATO disintegrating? This is the question being asked by military men of many nations on the eve of the Western Summit. Not only has NATO failed to reach the target figures laid down as the absolute minimum by its policy planners, but there is a real possibility that its existing forces, small as they are, will he further eroded in the near future.
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The samc view. MI
Anglo- U.S. NATO. AA we progress bola into the 1960s, Germany's Macmillan is fond of repeating "cannot envisage any circum- demand for a bigger say in stances in which I would go to policy will grow ever more insistent.
of
the Queen and ray, Ma'am, the
thrust
using only con~
Colomb-Bechar. LONG Atom Bomb
Ante Bahara -
At Lisbon, in 1952, the target for the European theatre was set at between 65 and 95 divisions, with air power of corresponding magnitude.
time has come for your subjects to commit suickle."
tart route to do Caulle's Two years later it was realised that there was not the slightest possibility
Indeed, the Sandys theory in Already, with the up-
defended
prostige explosion | now
for purely of assembling such forces, and the figure was scaled down to 30, on condi-
pointment
General
French watched a
missile financial reasons.
for
miles 50 tion that these divisions were gradually "nuclearised."
Speidel as Central Europe It should be possible-and the streaking
they have latest publication of the Army the other night. Ir endod General Noralad, the figure would be disastrous.
the commander, divisions-five from
League orgues this strongly within 10 yards of its target. Supreme Commander, has Yet what is the position USA, two and half British, seized the key army post, for NATO's forces to contain a repeatedly stated that any today? He commands live German, one each from
In July, Spekle repland Soviet serious shortfall below this mere 10 combat-ready France. Belgium and the eritam's Major-general Thump- ventional wraps.
Netherlands, plus a Cana son by arwather German, General Wirsing, as Operations Chief on dian brigade.
his statt. Now the Germans are of pressing for the remova
But it is at this point that the Gracen Sir Dudley Ward, com-
Both these demonstrations under of NATO Army Group Gurman strategists come in. By
were technically top specret I North, and his replacement by a ruling out massive retaliation,
wasn't allowed to $00 Germata.
they argue, the risks of a ventional war fought on German) how the rockets
nor to know territory vastly increase.
or speed:
5m. bogus notes
FIV
in
are kept
U.S. vault
Washington.
IVE million dollars in paper money is kept securely locked behind heavy steel doors in a vault in the United States Treasury Building here -yet all the money is worthless.
This is what Treasury experts call the funny money room" of the counterfeit section of U.S. Secret Service.
counterfeit Samples of every currency, ever-ilcked up by the Treasury agents are kept in locked ille in this room.
Before the civil war
three-dollar
L
Moreover, combat-ready is really a euphemism. Very few of the German troops tre fully trained, The British divisions are 40 per cent below strength.
And one of Norstad's de- puties recently described the Benelux contingents as worthless.
Blackmail
They are also, in league with the French, conspiring to oust General Str Richard Gale, Norsted's deputy.
Diminishing
the Get-
The risks
con-
We lose they say, whatever happens. Therefore it is can- tial to our national interest to make clear that we will use
Earlier I watched a guided air-to-air rocitet streak ACTUSS the deep blue Sahara sky al two and a half times the speed of cound, 30,000. up.
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France is carrying out these kids of tests seven days and seven nights a week in the most
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muclear weapons right from the conemtrated programme of 10 Taylor's London Dry
start.
How can these demands be Had the original proposal to resisted? Already
equip the new German Army mans supply more troops to with only conventional, short-
NATO than any
other
nation
in default of a reply to his the mid-1960s, with
divisions, they will outnumber are being racleurised too. Ger-
memorandum
to
Nor is this all. This year, except the United States. By range weapons been carried out,
the risk would not be grave. 12 whole Unfortunately the Germans Eisen-il other NATO powers on the man troops are already training hower calling for a bigger ground.
the USA. in the use of And. with their target of nuclear weapons. guy-so in NATO decisions, General de Gaulle removed 1,000 front-line aircraft, they Service is certain the the powerful French fleet will be second only to the U.S.A. Matador rockels,
in the air.
the chance it may be required
as evidence in court.
Kept for two years
money
from
Ile is likely to take still unless--
in
the
secret experiments ever held.
Like the de Gaulle A-bomb they belong to the prestige pro-
put France book among ramme which is intended ruling nations.
PRECIOUS
ta
the
tremendous mushrooming scheme by which the general plans to restore his country to the councils of world leadership.
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In July, the first U.S.-built It is not a programme based with a range simply on publicity. I have had If the
of 650 miles, were handed ovet to fight and argue for weeks to bills will
the Mediterranean The rise of German hegemony to Germany. never be needed as
For the moment, be allowed to go anywhere near CAPTAIN MORGAN
this forced the in NATO is linked to an even their nuclear warheads will be evidence, it keeps them for two command and years before they are bundled | Americans
withdraw more vital problem: the type of retained in U.S. custody. to up and delivered to the Trea-
war NATO intends to wage in their tactical bomber forces uic event of Soviet aggression..
But Germany already has Gury Department's official "des-
make in the French nuclear from France, truction committee."
In Britain and the USA weapons programme, and The bogus
is then
time must inevitably, come when The samples include some taken to the Naval Weapons sterner measures
the
number of those who she disposes of wartibads of her bills which are Plant, where it is burned.
believe that a Soviet probe own. The Germans will then be counterfeit of money issued by The Secret Service uses its and this seems improbable in Europe should evoke in a position to dictate the fire- state banks before the American counterfeit
Allog system to-he gets satisfaction.
of any clash in civil war.
check whether now "bogus bills"
strategic nuclear retaliation power level
Europe. are copies of earlier fakes.
The batis of NATO's is steadily diminishing,
This is the impasse in which Britain and the US. find Them- Its les also help citizens who infra-structure its supply discover hidden treasures of old and communications system NATO Commander in Southern searching for a political solution, Brown selves. No wonder they are now currency in bikes, trunks And Millions of dollars of counter secret storage places.
-is in Franco giving de Europe, hor stated flatly: "1
and treading gingerly along the felt currency uncovered by
path to disarmament. Recently, bills were uncovered Gaulle infinite opportunities would not recommend Treasury agents in recent years after half a century. They were for blackmail. are kept in vaults lining one fakes. On le were their dupli- wall of the room.
cates eeized by agents decades
It was these "funny money" items which fed to the
expres-
sion "as phony as a three-dollar
bill."
The Secret Service keeps this age. "funny money" for five years on
Nationalisation pase 1 drop perhaps
Admiral Charles
the use
of any atomic weapon, however amall, when both sides have the power to destroy the work." France's claims are not
the The British despite
the to the grandiloquent phrase of the only threat -(London Express Service).
THE SOCIALIST - PARTY
National
opportunity
London Expréss Service),
The British Army in the Nuclear Age. 2/6.
Cummings
"But we do wgzed-we both belleve in the same medialne.*
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of
tests which are going on around Colomb-Bechar,
atomic explosive isn't much use. The
аге the vehicles rockets delivery.
And just how capable France is of using those vehicles i can tell you in the words senior officer of the top-secret Colomb-Bechar recioet böse:-
of a
the
We are now Bring-o best of bootsomat Tate of 800 to 1,000 rockets of all kinds a year. By this time next year our capacity will be 2,000 to 3,000 rocknía s year.
At this moment we have 30 different kinds of rockets being tested. We have a much greater number of control instruments under fest,
Our photographio departament develops and printa fust over 400 mães of 35nm. Bim year. We shall dusily dow
Die that figure next year.
I watched the air-to-air firing,
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The nowest rocket of them all, the CT41, more than two and a half times superavnic,
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