Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of the European Army is to link German arms with those of five of her neighbors, and thus to guard against a revival of German militarism. The other five are already joined together in NATO, where the armies of 14 countries serve side by side. Last week, on a visit to the U.S., General Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO's Chief of Staff, issued a cheerful progress report on this mighty coalition. Said...
...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
...conceived by Dupuy, the proposed revisions have two aims: to link specific military actions to the general principles of war, which remain valid regardless of technological changes; and second, to study the relation of the military to politics, both in war and peace...
Besides raising the Committee's stature, this selection would forge a much needed link between the Administration and the Committee. It would end the present practice, in which student representatives depart with little coaching from University Hall on how to avoid pitfalls in the recruitment game...
Denmark's tiny army, a link in NATO's northern anchor chain, was shaken last week by ugly spasms of mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...