It is intriguing how close Europe came, back in the early 1950s, to establishing a European Defense Community. Forget the sort of carefully-nuanced initiatives which proceed under the banner of European defense today: this would have been real, full-blooded common defense, with a standing European army under central command, sustained by a common budget. Even more intriguing, [in Washington] President Truman was all for it, and after the change of administration so was Eisenhower. But eventually it came to nothing, NATO got going, and defense rather disappeared from the specifically European agenda for the next half century.

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