Archive Report
Archive Report
Current Resurvey of North Atlantic Alliance
European Unification and Future Role of Nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization may be approaching a turning point of vast significance for its future. Forces now at work may determine whether Nato will continue to play the role of principal defender of Western Europe; whether it will take on also tasks of political and economic coordination for the North Atlantic community; or whether it will gradually yield ground to a progressively integrated Europe which will develop its own institutions and policies independently of the United States.
The Suez Canal crisis, by exposing a lack of wholehearted American support for mutual British and French interests in a vital quarter, seems to have given a boost to the movement for European unification. Not ...