"Welcome to the NATO fleet."

Robert Mackenzie talks about the NATO meeting (1957?). "The word interdependence is important - it has a new emphasis. It is built of a Soviet initiative. NATO brings together the nations of the whole Atlantic world. it is not a panic reaction to Sputnik. The idea of NATO is to share out the burdens of defence." Britain's position is discussed, as is Cyprus and the Algerian dispute. The arguments for a neutralised Germany, which the British government does not advocate.