Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...questions, given urgent appraisal in the White House, National Security Council and Pentagon, were these: 1) Can the U.S. provide enough IRBMs for NATO's European bases, and 2) If so, should it be done? The answers...
Should It Be Done? Yes, without qualification. NATO's Lauris Norstad was perhaps first and foremost in grasping the logic of launching IRBMs from European bases. His proposition, pushed hard during a trip to Washington last week: the IRBMs would be under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (currently, the U.S.'s Norstad). Since only SACEUR could order the weapons into war, no individual nation, bent on some strictly nationalistic adventure, could toss them off into the wild blue yonder. NATO's IRBM launchers would be manned by European troops-but they would...
...Sprightly old (just 70) Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery announced that next September he will quit as NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander. "I am pulling out because I am satisfied that the danger of direct attack on NATO countries is now very remote. What might be called the European test match can be postponed indefinitely [although] there may be village cricket elsewhere in the world," Monty explained. "The 1949 conception of NATO is now too narrow. Its members have got to look outwards at the world and not just inwards at their own parish pumps...
...underground activity, and now the party's leading expert on defense questions. Erler was in the vanguard of Socialist moderates who led the party out of its postwar "Ohne Mich" (Include Me Out) policy to a more reasonable posture on rearmament, membership in NATO, and Western European cooperation...
...should break out, NATO forces would deploy to defend Europe and the West, but not the geographical integrity of their most exposed European member, West Germany. Since taking over as the federal republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...