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Show Speakers Praise NATO's Aims its allies before any important step is taken that might have an effect on the East-West conflict. The consultation level gives member mem-ber nations the opportunities to express ex-press their opinions, agree, disagree dis-agree and suggest changes on important im-portant steps in foreign policy. The "optimum result of consultation con-sultation is agreement," while the minimum result is to "agree to disagree," he said. The final stage, coordination, is accomplished by "discussic7"pers-" uasion and compromise." HE SAID that the "threat to freedom is world wide, and it can be met only if we are strong and united." He explained that NATO can maintain this freedom because it is "based on a deeper understanding of what we stand for than most earlier alliances" which were established estab-lished to stop war with the threat of force. "This is not true with NATO," he said. "Self defense is employed employ-ed only as the last means to maintain our freedom." Mr. Schulze-Boysen said there are three stages which have been established in order for NATO to depart as a successful organization. organiza-tion. They are information, consultation con-sultation and coordination. AT THE information level, every member government must inform i .... . 1 1 I t A - - . : jf I m JL The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Org-anization (NATO) was hailed Tuesday Tues-day by David Eves, economic director di-rector of the British informauon Services, and Hartmut Schulze-Boysen, Schulze-Boysen, press counselor to the Oer-man Oer-man Embassy in Washington, D.C as a unique military alliance whose single aim is "not to fight. MR EVES and Mr. Schulze-Boysen discussed some of the basic strengths and weaknesses of NA1U in a "Challenge" presentation entitled en-titled "NATO: Ambiguous Alliance. Both Mr. Eves and Mr. Schulze-Boysen Schulze-Boysen were sceptical of the topic which tagged NATO as an amb-igous amb-igous alliance." Mr. Eves was quick to point out that "there is nothing ambiguous in the conception or NATO" while Mr. Schulze-Boysen suggested that some of the vagueness vagu-eness and weaknesses in the NAiu alliance may also be "part of our strength." Mr. Schulze-Boysen offered NATO as the "best possible solution" sol-ution" to our current problems, but he cautioned that we must "constantly improve to make it less ambiguous." He said that we must not be too "ambitious or too impatient," and that it would be impossible to succeed suc-ceed completely with a single foreign fore-ign policy under NATO as long, as the 15 member nations have their sovereignty. He indicated that NATO NA-TO should follow a pragmatic course cour-se and "do as well as it can." MR. EVES explained that the "catalyse" which caused the member-nations of NATO to band together to-gether was the Soviet threat. "Only the existence of this threat has kept them together," he said. He stressed that the threat is far from over and that we can't afford to "weaken our western position or alliance." He praised the success of NATO meeting crises, because on "every occasion we have all reacted at once and together. The continuing continu-ing spirit is there." Mr. Schulze-Boysen expressed the opinion of the average man-on-the street in Germany who believes that "without NATO, there would be no free Germany today." DAVID EVES . . . We can't afford to weaken our alliance HARTMUT SCULZE-BOYSEN . . . NATO: Best possible solution. |