Prime Ministerial Private Office files
Germany: Powell minute for MT (“Comprehensive Concept”) [background papers on the Comprehensive Concept of arms control; issue is whether Germans would give firm commitment to modernisation of NATO SNF without Alliance commitment to negotiate further reductions in SNF? Michael Alexander believing UK would "have to give in to the Germans on this and may as well start now"] [declassified Jul 2017]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
|---|---|
| Source: | PREM19/3355 ff18-19 |
| Editorial comments: | Alexander was Britain's representative at NATO and a former occupant of Powell's job at No.10 in the early years of MT's premiership. |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 2pp |
| Themes: | Charles Powell minutes, British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), Foreign policy - theory and process, Defence (general), Defence (arms control) |
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