British Minister attacks U.S.
NZPA London The United States treated its N.A.T.O. partners more like Communists than allies, the British Minister of State for Defence. Mr Geoffrey' Pattie. said in Washington yesterday. The “Daily Telegraph" reports that Mr Pattie was visiting the United States to express Britain's growing concern over the Reagan Administration's treatment of fellow N.A.T.O. countries. He criticised the Administration's "restrictionism" in refusing to share military technology and causing squabbles'in a year criticial for the N.A.T.O. alliance.
In "the year of the cruise missile." the allies were having to turn their attention to squabbles and arguments within the alliance. They were "stresses we could do without." he said. "I thought that the technological transfer problem was something to do with the Communist world. I thought that we were not in the Communist world but that we were all allies together." Mr Pattie said. When British firms won contracts to provide equipment to American defence services it often found that Congress had changed the rules.
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