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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.

28.

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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