Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation NATO Council, meeting in Washington, turned NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
...fine print of the epochal NATO Treaty signed by twelve nations in Washington in 1949, was the provision that any NATO member could come back in ten years to suggest changes in the treaty structure. Last week, as the NATO Council got together in conference rooms and on the flag-banked platform of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, nobody suggested that a single comma of the original treaty ought to be changed...
...NATO Council President Joseph M.A.H. Luns (Netherlands): Those who in the present situation talk about "disengagement," "freezes," etc. are showing a mentality that comes close to neutralism. "Communism uses these people. It cajoles them, approaches them, assures them that Western concessions, withdrawal, disengagement will open the way to lasting peace. Most disengagement plans are essentially Communist creations, designed to neutralize Germany, to make Western Europe defenseless and to force the withdrawal of allied troops from the Continent-in other words, to deprive Europe and the alliance of the main pillars on which peace rests...
Just to be sure that the Russians know that NATO is braced for whatever crises they want to create in the next ten years, the NATO Council closed its three-day session with a brief communiqué noting its "unanimous determination to maintain the freedom of the people of West Berlin, and the rights and obligations of the Allied powers...
...Masters yesterday expressed strong approval of the recent report on the House system made by the Student Council Committee on the Houses...