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The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.
The NATO Council is available as an executive agency, the Standing Group as a high military authority.
The unofficial Conference of Parliamentarians is available as a potential legislative authority.
This machinery will not become the instrument of an Atlantic community by fiat, but only when that community evolves from potentiality to reality.
The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.
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