WORLD LEADERS PREDICT A Divorce Between America and Europe! - Gene H Hogberg - November-December 1982

Gene H Hogberg

For three decades, the U.S. and Western Europe have enjoyed unprecedented prosperity in a dynamic partnership. But disputes over trade and relations with the Soviet bloc now threaten to rip the Atlantic Alliance asunder. Tempers are rising on both sides of the Atlantic. Political positions are hardening. Relations between the United States and its allies in Western Europe are at an all-time low. "There is more mutual distrust of intentions," says one British journalist, "than any time since the end of the war against Hitler." France's Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson summed up the situation most succinctly when he expressed the belief that a "gradual divorce" was taking place between America and Europe. Mr. Cheysson's somber prediction should not be taken lightly. Should he be proved correct, many people will be hurt- as in divorces on the individual level. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library