N.A.T.O. A-FORCE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29984, 20 November 1962, Page 9

N.A.T.O. A-FORCE

U.S.' Ready To Help

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PARIS. Nov. 18. The United States has offered to help European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation form their own integrated nuclear force, Associated Press reported. The American Under-Sec-retary of State Mr George Ball told the annual N.A.T.O. parliamentarians’ conference that the United States was willing to place its experience at the disposal of the European members in the formation of such a force.

His speech obviously referred to American experience in handling such weapons and not on how to make them, as he referred mostly to the capabilities and use of a nuclear force. “Should other N.A.T.O. nations so desire, we are ready to give serious consideration to the creation of a genuinely multilateral, medium-range ballistic missile force fully co-ordinated with the other deterrent forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.” “It is essential that a Europe growing more powerful and more unified should make an increasing effort to further the build-up of conventional forces in Europe,” he said.