Key Information
Reference code
ISMAY 3/12/10
Title
Text, 'A new look at NATO defence programmes', Jul 1953
Date(s)
- 1953 Jul 20 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
3pp
Scope and content
Paper entitled 'A new look at North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) defence programmes' includes recommendations for reduction in military expenditure for future years in various NATO countries. With covering letter from Richard Duke Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary, Executive Secretary, NATO to Ismay forwarding the paper and explaining that it was based largely on the views of FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Typescript, 3pp