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2013.
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The Year of Europe initiative, publicly launched by President Richard M. Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger, with a speech delivered to an annual Associated Press gathering of prominent publishers, newspaper editors and media executives at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on 23 April 1973, is primarily remembered as a major policy failure that quickly unravelled amid acrimony and recrimination. 1 Despite its high-sounding aspirations, Kissinger's call for a new sense of purpose and revitalised set of objectives to animate the transatlantic alliance had the contrary effect of provoking European suspicions of American motives, and fears that the forging of a new "Atlantic Charter"-as Kissinger proposed in his speech-would become a device for Washington to reassert its hegemony over its alliance partners, just as there was a growing impetus behind closer moves toward Western European unity, with the European Community (EC) expanding its membership from six to nine at the start of the year, and beginning to search for a collective political voice.
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100671
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2010.
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This article investigates the little-known plans formulated by Harold Wilson's Labour government to deploy Polaris submarines in the Indo-Pacific region. The scheme was first proposed in 1965 as a response to several problems faced by British policy-makers, including China's acquisition of a nuclear capability, Britain's wish to maintain a meaningful position 'East of Suez' at reduced cost, and German pressure for equal treatment within NATO on nuclear matters. Despite extensive high-level discussion, the plans were finally abandoned in mid-1968, as Labour moved more decisively to forsake the world role.
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058764
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