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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 30, 1963
British Say No Missiles
LONDON—(UPI) —The Kennedy administration's proposal for an allied armada of missile armed ships is under increasing attack in Great Britain as an enormously expensive concept for which there is little or no military need.
Officially, Britain has neither opposed nor supported the project, which calls for creating a multilateral nuclear force (MLF) of 25 surface ships armed with a total of 200 polaris type missiles and operated by crews of mixed nationalities.
But is is clear from information available today that British officials would like to see the proposal killed.
In current allied conferences on the possibility of creating a multilateral force, reluctantly participating London representatives are asking repeatedly: "What is it for?"
The British view is that the proposed NATO fleet would be costly means of adding only marginal power to the vast nuclear strength which already exists, and would be designed for the chief political purpose of giving West Germany a measure of control over nuclear weapons.
Convinced that there is not a military case for creating the force, the British are arguing that there are much higher priority uses for estimated $2 billion the force might cost.
One of these would be the improvement of conventional armed forces in Europe and elsewhere.
IT IS CONTENDED that the MLF, with the American President retaining a sure veto, would never be used except in a massive retaliatory attack and that there is ample power for that in present strategic forces.
London is unable to conceive of the MFL allowed to lob a single missile into Russia from a ship standing, say, in the Bay of Biscay, in the course of a less-than-all-out war.
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