The Real Role of Nato

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Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, revealed a curious interpretation of the NATO Treaty to his partners at a recent meeting of Ministers in Paris, He reminded them of Article 5 which states "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack ageinst them all." He went on to point out that in the event of an attack on the U.S. West Coast by China all the NATO countries would be involved. The implications of this are that Rusk wants to get the West European countries involved in its Asian adventures. The nonsense about a possible Chinese attack on the U.S. is merely a smoke-screen to cover up Johnson's own plans in that direction. Could it be that having failed to involve its NATO partners directly in Vietnam, the U.S. Govern= ment will try to do so through the backdoor of the NATO treaty? We should re-double our effort to get Britain out of NATO.