 | United States. President (1961-1963 : Kennedy) - Presidents - 1962 - 1096 pages
...today less than 2 percent of the world's population lives in territories officially termed "dependent." As this effort for independence, inspired by the American...has been the basic object of our foreign policy for 17 years. We believe that a united Europe will be capable of playing a greater role in the common defense,... | |
 | Paul Latawski, Martin A. Smith - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...positive. He declared that 'the United States looks on this vast new enterprise [ie European integration] with hope and admiration. We do not regard a strong and united Europe as a rival but as a partner'. He proceeded to offer EEC leaders an implicit deal: a greater say in transatlantic and NATO decision-making... | |
 | Clyde V Prestowitz - History - 2008 - 356 pages
...United States looks on this valiant enterprise with hope and admiration. We don't regard a strong, united Europe as a rival but as a partner. To aid its progress has been the basic objective of our foreign policy for the past 17 years." He went on to call for a "Declaration of Interdependence"... | |
 | Sondra Myers, Benjamin R. Barber - Political Science - 2004 - 112 pages
...new enterprise with hope and admiration. We do not regard a strong and united Europe as a rival hut as a partner. To aid its progress has been the basic object of our foreign policy for 17 years. We believe that a united Europe will he capable of playing a greater role in the common defense,... | |
 | Stanley R. Sloan - History - 2005 - 356 pages
...at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, US President Kennedy said that the United States does not view "a strong and united Europe as a rival but as a partner." President Kennedy proposed "a concrete Atlantic partnership" between the United States and Europe "on... | |
 | New Zealand. Department of External Affairs - International relations - 1962 - 746 pages
...sought, to find freedom in diversity and to find strength in unity. The United States looks on this vast enterprise with hope and admiration. We do not regard...rival but as a partner. To aid its progress has been a basic object of our foreign policy for 17 years. We believe that a united Europe will be capable... | |
 | J. Ørstrøm Møller - Business & Economics - 2008 - 513 pages
...vis-a-vis the European Union. In a speech in Philadelphia on 4 July 1962, President Kennedy38 said: We do not regard a strong and united Europe as a rival but as a partner. We believe that a united Europe will be capable of playing a greater role in the common defense, of... | |
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To aid its progress has been the basic objective of our foreign policy for 17 years. We believe that a united Europe will be capable of playing a greater role in the common defense, of responding more generously to the needs of poorer nations, of joining... 