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February 19, 1986

Brussels–NATO (BNATO) to Department of External Affairs (Canada), 'Alliance Problems Over INF'

In a flurry of cables from February 1986, Canadian assessments focused on a chronic issue within NATO: consultation within the alliance. As this dispatch from Brussels concluded, paraphrasing Winston Churchill, “NATO nuclear collective consultation is the worst form, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

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Library and Archives Canada (LAC) [Ottawa, Ontario, Canada], LAC, RG 25, Vol. 28672, File 27-4-NATO-1-INF, Part 11.

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