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The establishment of NATO in 1949 is rightly regarded as a vital step toward securing eventual victory in the Cold War; but at a certain level,it also provided a complication for the Special Relationship.On the one hand,the U.S.regarded the relationship with Britain as,in Truman’s words,“the mainspring of Atlantic Defense” (and not just Atlantic,given British commitments side by side with America in Korea).At the same time,however,the United States was also keen to emphasize the Western European dimension to the Cold War struggle.Too exclusive a commitment to Britain might render less credible America’s wider plans for European self-defense.So the U.S.strongly backed the abortive European Defense Community,which Britain refused to join.This refusal provoked thinly veiled American threats to discontinue the Special Relationship.
The establishment of NATO in 1949 is rightly regarded as a vital step toward securing eventual victory in the Cold War; but at a certain level,it also provided a complication for the Special Relationship.On the one hand,the U.S.regarded the relationship with Britain as,in Truman’s words,“the mainspring of Atlantic Defense” (and not just Atlantic,given British commitments side by side with America in Korea).At the same time,however,the United States was also keen to emphasize the Western European dimension to the Cold War struggle.Too exclusive a commitment to Britain might render less credible America’s wider plans for European self-defense.So the U.S.strongly backed the abortive European Defense Community,which Britain refused to join.This refusal provoked thinly veiled American threats to discontinue the Special Relationship.
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