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Show Sea and a warm water route to the East and West. 3 France, one of the Big Three allied powers, has virtually withdrawn with-drawn from its NATO commitments, commit-ments, pulling its contingents out of Europe to hold its North African colonial empire in submission. More important likely, is the French withdrawal or at least boycott boy-cott of the United Nations over a vote on the Algerian problem in North Africa, endangering the effectiveness ef-fectiveness of the United Nations itself. If France persists in its present stand, it may mean more withdrawals and a possible breakup break-up of UN as an effective world organization for peace. WHAT has happened to the foreign for-eign policy of the United States since the summit conference confer-ence at Geneva when western propaganda led the world to believe be-lieve a new era of good feeling as between the Reds and the free world was in the making? What has happened to free world unity and the western allies since that memorable conference when the President, since stricken with a heart attack, made his offer of reciprocal aerial arms inspection as between the Soviet Union and the United States? What has happened to the western west-ern position that there is no alternative alter-native to NATO and a United Germany Ger-many since the Geneva conference? confer-ence? The answers to these three questions ques-tions do not make pleasant reading read-ing insofar as our world diplomacy is concerned, but the facts are these: 4. While talking peace at Geneva, Gen-eva, Russia has flatly turned down the President's proposal for an arms Inspection plan and in turn is insisting that the United States give up its foreign military bases, carefully built up over a ten-year 1. NATO itself is threatened by the likely withdrawal of Greece, Turkey, France and even the unlikely un-likely participation of western Germany Ger-many itself in this North Atlantic Treaty Organization which the free world deems the first essential of a free Europe. 2 Our two allies, Greece and Turkey are at the breaking point in their diplomatic relations. Both these countries are vital to even the containment, let alone any concessions on the part of Russia, since they set astride the Dardanelles Darda-nelles and the Bosphorus, Russia's long sought outlet from the Black 1 - period. As a token of its supposed sincerity, Russia has returned Porlkala, a military base to Finland, Fin-land, and to put added pressure on the United States, the Soviets are offering to return Habomai and Shikotan Islands, just north of Japan, to Japan, as an incentive incen-tive for the U. S. to give up its Far Eastern bases. 5 Also while talking peace, the Soviets have frankly admitted they have offered arms to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria, and in the case of Egypt, a complete prefabricated arms plant to turn out rifles, ma-chum ma-chum guns and light artillery. |