NATO's Disarray and Europe's Future

• Published in: The Review of Politics
• Main Author: Kertesz, Stephen D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1966
• Subjects: Political Science and International Relations; Sociology and Political Science; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003467050000591x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003467050000591X

PRESIDENT DE GAULLE announced on September 9, 1965, that after 1969 France will no longer accept an integrated North Atlantic military defense system. He recognized that in many areas France has “the best reasons for associating with others,” but must retain her self-determination: so long as the solidarity of the Western peoples appears to us necessary for the eventual defense of Europe, our country will remain the ally of her allies but, upon the expiration of the commitments formerly taken — that is, in 1969 by the latest — the subordination known as “integration” which is provided for by NATO and which hands our fate over to foreign authority shall cease, as far as we are concerned.