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US initiatives toward Moscow and Peking, and the Congressional pressures for unilateral force reductions, were not the only causes of tension within the Alliance Britain’s effort to enter the European Economic Community (EEC), Chancellor Brandt’s Ostpolitik, France’s interest in restoring its relations with the US, and the Nixon Administration’s reaction to these initiatives, also contributed to the discontent on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Edward A. Kolodziej, French International Policy Under de Gaulle and Pompidou (1974) pp. 401–3; Kissinger, White House Years, pp. 86–91.
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Andrianopoulos, A.G. (1988). US Reaction to West European Unity. In: Western Europe in Kissinger’s Global Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19425-4_8
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