Kennedys Europe Trip
Kennedy felt the need to strengthen the Atlantic alliance in 1963 for a number of reasons. He was suspicious of Gen. De Gaulles motives in backing away from the alliance in so far as France appeared to be withdrawing from NATO and promising not to help NATO defend the West in the case of an attack from the East. De Gaulle had stated that he would not help pay for NATO, and Kennedy viewed that France was, in its own way, trying to divide the West. Pick described Kennedys viewpoint in 1963 by writing: the President has evidently become convinced that General de Gaulle will stop at virtually nothing to divide Western Europe from Britain and the US. His actions are considered to have gone beyond mere nuisance value. The US resents the fact that the French decision against paying for United Nations peace-keeping operations was recently delivered in virtually identical terms with those of the Soviet announcement. In other words, while NATO members were suspicious of Kennedy because they thought he was trying to cut a backroom deal with the Soviets, Kennedy was suspicious of France because he thought De Gaulle was trying to do the same thing.
The importance of NATO at this point in history was purely political: the Cold War was underway and the arms race was the hot button issue. NATO was an alliance between the U.S. and the European states against the perceived...
…was not about to jump into another military confrontation and did not want to participate in military drills or contribute financially to the NATO line of defense. This exasperated Kennedy on the one hand, and on the other hand he too wanted to effect the peace. He skipped visiting France in his 1963 European visit because he was more interested in strengthening the U.S. image. As Pick (1963) put it: The US has failed to out-manoeuvre France so far. President Kennedy is making an outstanding effort now. General de Gaulle will again be visiting Germany in July. The President, by engaging in a virtual popularity contest. is trying to insure against a further German effort to strengthen Franco-German relations at the expense of the Atlantic alliance. In other…
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Kennedy, J. F. (1963). State of the Union. Retrieved from http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9138
Pick, H. (1963). Why Mr. Kennedy is in Europe. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/apr/20/why-jfk-is-in-europe-archive-june-1963
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