Similarly, global planning committees were unacceptable. It was fine for NATO allies to consult in council as they wished, but the rest of the world would be up in arms if they were to discover NATO was acting as if it was the global over-lord. The worst part of Spaak’s memorandum for the Americans was the part on atomic sharing. US policy and congressional attitudes were not in favor of granting France atomic cooperation—Spaak had been “entirely incorrect” in his assessment.
