https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/c75ea94b5c53c0730c7d4facbb99958e.pdf 2dfee63cf2d6ed8518a1b0ce1703c20b PDF Text Text FM LDN MAR20/ 64 CONFD Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act - v Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information TO EXTERNAL 1007 | 0 WASHDC NATOPARIS EMBPARIS DISARHDEL6VE BONN HAGUE BRU ROME CCOS TT DM/DND DE CCOS BRIT INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR DETERRENT DURING HOUSE OF LORDS DEFENCE DEBATE, MARt 7, FIRST LORD OF ADMIRALTY, TALKING ABOUT INDEPENDENT BRIT NUCLEAR DETERRENT,SAID THAT IT WAS NOT RPT NOT INCONCEIVABLE THAT THERE MIGHT COME A TIME WHEN ORGANIC STRUCTURE OF WESTERN ALLIANCE WAS SUFFICIENTLY STRONG FOR BRITAIN TO BE ABLE WITH ENTIRE CONFIDENCE TO PLACE HER NUCLEAR ARMOURY IRREVOCABLY IN A COMMON POOL.HE ADDED THAT THAT WAS NOT RPT NOT POSITION NOW.STATEMENT HAS AROUSED MUCH SPECULATION IN PRESS AS WELL AS CLAIM BY OPPOSITION THAT IT MARKS CHANGE IN GOVT POLICY. 2*WHEN WE CALLED MAR20 ON BARNES,HEAD WESTERN ORGANIZATIONS AND COORDINATION DEPT FO,TO ASK WHAT CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE PLACED ON LORD JELLICOES STATEMENT,HE SAID THAT THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS DOWN FOR NEXT WEEK IN HOUSE OF COMMONS ON ON SUBJECT AND HE WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT RPT NOT IN A POSITION TO ANTICIPATE RESULTS OF PARLIAMENTARY QUEST IONS. ANSWERS WOULD BE GIVEN BY PM. BARNES DID CONFIRM, HOWEVER,THAT JELLICOES STATEMENT FOLLOUS LINE ALREADY TAKEN BY GOVT SPOKESMEN AND DID NOT RPT NOT DIFFER IN SUBSTANCE FROM WHAT WAS SAID AS RECENTLY AS LAST MONTH BY MINISTER OF DEFENCE IN COMMONS. 3.BARNES WENT ON TO SAY THAT THOUGHT HAS FOR SOMETIME BEEN GIVEN IN VARIOUS QUARTERS TO WHETHER EUROPEAN POLITICAL UNION SHOULD BE BUILT ON AN ECONOMIC OR DEFENCE BASIS.HE OBSERVED THAT EFFORTS TO BUILD IT ON AN ECONOMIC BASIS HAD REVEALED THAT SUCH BASIS COULD NOT RPT NOT BE EXTENDED BROADLY ENOUGH TO SERVE PURPOSE.POSSIBILITIES THAT DEFENCE MIGHT PROVIDE REQUIRED BASIS FOR POLITICAL UNION HAD BEEN MOOTED BY HABIB DELONCLE AT STRASBOURG AND MORE RECENTLY BY JEAN MONNET.LATTER HAD EVEN ENVISAGED THAT PROPOSED MULTILATERAL FORCE 000662 MIGHT SERVE AS TRANSITIONAL STAGE TO CREATION OF AN INTEGRATED �Document disclosed under the Access to Information Act PAGE TWO 1 0 0 7 '• Document divulgue en vertu de la Loi sur I'acces a I'information EUROPEAN DEFENCE SET*UP*BARNES COMMENTED THAT BRIT DO NOT RPT N ^ SEE MLF IN THAT LIGHT BUT RATHER AS A MEANS OF TYING USA TO EURoW;N DEFENCE; IT IS, IN THEIR VIEW, AN ATLANTIC FORMULA, NEVERTHELESS, THESE PRONOUNCEMENTS, AND EVEN GEN DE GAULLES DESIRE TO BUILD AN -INDEPENDENT EUROPEAN DETERRENT AROUND FRENCH FORCE DE FRAPPE DID IN BARNES VIEW INDICATE THAT CONCEPT OF GIVING EUROPEAN POLITICAL UNION A DEFENCE BASIS WAS RECEIVING SOME ATTENTION.AT PRESENT, HOWEVER,YOU WERE STILL A LONG WAY FROM CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH 3RIT GOVT WOULD BE PREPARED TO CONSIDER TURNING ITS NUCLEAR DETERRENT OVER TO A COMMON POOL.* 000663 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDNW18105 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Defence - Conventional and Nuclear Armaments - Nuclear Weapons Policy,” RG25-A-3-c, File number: 27-11-1, File part: 1, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LAC ATIP A-2017-00249 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Crown Copyright Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource ENG