Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coalition. From a command concerned chiefly with fighting a war and negotiating an elusive peace, 57-year-old General Ridgway will move halfway around the globe to a job concerned chiefly with building military strength to prevent a war. From Eisenhower he inherits an allied military command stretching from Iceland to the Bosporus and encompassing one of history's most fateful coalitions of land, sea & air forces...
Members. At Lisbon, Greece and Turkey will be voted into NATO, expanding the alliance to 14 countries and stretching its reach from Iceland to the Dardanelles...
Died. Sveinn Björnsson, 70, Iceland's president (twice reelected) since its Parliament broke its last bond with Nazi-dominated Denmark in 1944 and proclaimed the island an independent republic ; of a heart ailment; in Reykjavik...
...shares for all. Last week the Three Wise Men, as their NATO colleagues have dubbed them, made their recommendations to the Temporary Council Committee (the Twelve Apostles), on which all NATO members are represented. Gist of the Wise Men's report: ¶I The U.S., Britain, Portugal and Iceland (which has no army) have budgeted a "satisfactory" expenditure for defense. ¶ The other NATO allies can do better. Specifically, Belgium ought to spend 50% more and Denmark 40% more; these two countries have the highest standard of living in Europe, but are not contributing a proportionate share of their...
Overstuffed Iceland. Gallery confides that Iceland wasn't nearly so cold as everybody imagined, but at the time he had no inclination to dispel any illusions. Only the deepest snowdrifts were photographed. That softened the supply officers back in Washington, who, at the whisper of the word "Iceland," scrupulously filled requisitions for pianos, bowling alleys and overstuffed sofas...