Word: bonnes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...United States sits on this thorny problem, fearing to jeopardize either military adequacy or diplomatic bonds. Secretary Dulles has assured Bonn and Paris that America will not reduce her NATO manpower, thereby attempting to allay the inevitable neutralistic sentiment which would result from such action. But, being committed to nuclear emphasis in its general defense scheme, America is hard put to modify this concept as applied to Western Europe...
...Bonn naturally wants NATO to plan for halting a Soviet offensive at the Elbe, rather than at the Rhine. But such a goal is admittedly impossible to achieve, and nuclear retaliation must be the primary objective. Yet, America can afford to sustain its NATO troops at their present force, if only to avert European fears and neutralistic repercussions. Besides, an adequate European ground force is vital to protect the missile sites which would launch the nuclear reprisal...
Clearly angered by the questions, Moscow abandoned its sweet reassurances and got off a truculent note to Bonn. Unless West Germany is reconciled to winding up as "one big cemetery," warned the Russians, she, too, had better refuse to accept any NATO atomic bases. What was more, there could be no serious talk of German reunification unless Adenauer abandoned his idea of acquiring tactical atomic weapons for his new army...
...BONN, Germany, May1--The civilian chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said today its military planners soon will advise the 15 member nations to equip their forces with nuclear arms...
Typically, Strauss's Defense Ministry two days later insisted that West Germany "would honor its commitments to NATO." But West Germany's partners had been given a clear indication of what Strauss would be proposing at the NATO council meeting next month in Bonn...