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- 2 - Embajada de España to the Western community, not only in the area of defense, but also of ideas; and we aspire to an ever closer union between our two countries. However, on our relations with the United States, we have the feeling that these links have not been brought to proper fruition, and that the limits of our active cooperation with Europe have not been adequately, reached or properly explored. We are, perhaps, a real ally, but our alliance is not one of equal partnership; it is "one way only" and passive from the Spanish point of view. Logically, the Spanish people have a sense of disillusion and dissapointment with this situation, and this has given rise to a trend towards disengagement, a general desire not to incur in risks on behalf of a collec- tive system of defense that does not accept us; a wish to see a reduction in the American military presence, down to those levels and requirements which are strictly neces- sary for U.S. and Western security. In any case, there is a logical desire that our security should be protected in an adequate and. satisfactory manner from the added risks which have been created by the United States military presence in Spain. There is now a unique historic opportunity for the President of the United States to deal with these questions in his own seat of office, at the dawn of his Administration, during the NATO session that will take stock of the situation on its 20th anniversary in Washington We have heard with great interest the manner in which both the President, at his meeting with Foreign Minister Castiella, and Secretary of Defense Laird to-day with General Castañón, have expressed emphatically this

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