Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a sound and sober analysis of the results of the NATO meeting (see THE PARIS CONFERENCE). The leaders of NATO had agreed unanimously to arm the Atlantic Alliance with history's most powerful weapons despite the Kremlin's threats that this could bring their extinction; they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination...
...page let's-be-reasonable letters to the NATO leaders last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) to meet another logical, overriding need: to head off any new NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer's prolonged, painstaking disarmament talks. Once more...
...United States gave its consent to cautious and guarded overtures to the Kremlin to see if any success might be achieved by fresh negotiations with the Soviet Union...
PARIS, Dec. 17--The NATO summit conference today approved a guarded Western examination of the pitfalls and possibilities of direct talks with the Kremlin to reduce East-West tension...
...strategy behind the grandiose words and quixotic gestures filling the NATO meeting this week probably is intended to give the lie to recent Soviet boasts and bellows. America is trying to show her friends that she is not the slightest bit impressed by the Kremlin's noises. But obviously, our allies are impressed...