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Despite its concern, NATO did not advocate complete French withdrawal: to have done so might have prompted France to leave the Alliance; it did advocate, however, a political solution as France attempted to deal with growing political difficulties at home and the possibility of something like a political revolution in the early 1960s. As far as the Europeans were concerned, France was too important a partner to antagonise. Britain and Belgium both had colonies of their own. On the whole, it fell to the United States to express the reservations which many held, but which few were willing to express.
Several years later, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, admitted that his judgment might have been at fault in clinging to a policy which had met with opposition from within his own cabinet. 5 Yet at the time he had not been alone in holding to the opinion that it would be unwise to pull back from a part of the world where British forces were most needed, in favour of concentrating them in a part of the world where they were needed much less. A thousand men East of Suez appeared a much more attractive proposition than another 1000 men on the Rhine.
Yet many of the states which had attached the highest value and derived the most protection from the RN's presence before 1968 refused to be drawn when sounded out about the matter. From their cool reception to Heath's commitment four months later 'to keep the peace in the Indian Ocean and sustain the countries that are working to develop their economic and social systems in a free and democratic manner,>10 it was clear that many local powers preferred to put their trust in the demilitarisation of the Indian Ocean for which they had voted at the third conference of the non-aligned movement two months earlier.
