Show I I I TIDe The German Propos The Germans have offered an amendment to President John F. F Kennedys Kennedy's proposed multilateral nuclear force to tobe tobe be he attached to NATO which may save the whole project and which has Washington divided di die vided Mcd and pondering IN SIMPLE Sll terms the German German German Ger Ger- man proposal concerns the right of oC every member of the proposed nuclear force to have havea a veto over the use of nuclear weapons The US U.S. idea as the President first suggested it to British Prime Minister Harold Maco Macmillan IIan at Nassau was that hat each country could veto eto use of oC the weapons The European view which is taken into account by tf tI th German suggestion is that if any nation can veto action by this multilateral NATO nuclear nuclear nu clear force there will always be jo at least one veto The multilateral mul mul- force Coree would then be indeed the multilateral farce that hat French Government officials of of- have called it TilE THE I FRENCH now our enemies en en- in Europe to all intents and purposes short of war or orI future war want the multilateral multilateral eral cral idea to die a il farces farce's death President Kennedy cannot cannot can can- not afford aCCord to let such a fate overtake his own proposal especially es es- in the view of oC the Ule declining prestige and authority authority author author- it ity of the United States in Western Europe in the past two years |