Again all proposals, including the request to join NATO, were rejected by UK, US, and French governments shortly after. Emblematic was the position of British General Hastings Ismay, supporter of NATO expansion, who said that NATO "must grow until the whole free world gets under one umbrella." He opposed the request to join NATO made by the USSR in 1954 saying that "the Soviet request to join NATO is like an unrepentant burglar requesting to join the police force". COUNT 2
QSN1 Who was the general who spoke out against the USSR joining NATO? ANS1 Hastings Ismay QSN2 To what did the British general compare the USSR in his opposition to their joining NATO? ANS2 burglar