The fact is that it constitutes the direct and very logical outcome of what we in the West have accomplished. Only a confirmed skeptic could regard this as fortuitous. Soviet imperialism, which chalked up one conquest after another in the period from 1939 to 1948, has made no further progress in Europe since the day the Atlantic Alliance was formed. No one can deny that the Alliance has been wholly successful in its essential purpose of halting the expansion of Soviet imperialism in Europe without the need to resort to force. With each passing day I am more convinced that the surest and perhaps the only way to resist it successfully is to develop among the countries belonging to the Alliance a sense of oneness based on mutual understanding and loyalty.įortunately NATO is not, as some people think, in a state of crisis.
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The threat which it represents to the free world has, indeed, been aggravated in that it is now economic as well as military and is spreading far beyond the borders of Europe to Asia and Africa. During the ten years which have elapsed, the Communist world has not grown weaker. At the most I should like only to state that NATO today seems to me to be every bit as essential as it was in 1949, and perhaps more so. I DO not intend to set forth once again the historical and political considerations which necessitated and to this day justify the existence of the Atlantic Alliance.
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