Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein has his own ideas about the U.S. proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians."
Many British politicians and military experts share Montgomery's mistrust of the multilateral force (MLF) and its sponsor—the U.S. Indeed, though...
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