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Window Dressing? The diplomats and economists prevailed. "We have to do what we can do, not what we'd like to do," said Dean Acheson, representing the U.S. at his last big international conference. Without admitting it, the 42 ministers abandoned the goals set in their famed Lisbon Conference last February, shrugging off their talk of 70 divisions by 1953 as mere "window dressing" designed at the time to impress the U.S. Congress. The ministers cut in half the soldiers' urgent request for $420 million to continue construction of NATO airfields, radar network and jet-fuel pipelines...
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, deputy commander of NATO, arrived in Lisbon for a five-day visit at the invitation of Portugal's Defense Minister Lieut. Colonel Fernando dos Santos Costa...
...staffers measured the effects of this growing sentiment on Europe's defense effort. Gathering up confidential statistics from their 14 member nations in preparation for the NATO foreign ministers' full-dress conference on Dec. 15, the NATO Secretariat matched performance against the handsome promises made at the Lisbon Conference (TIME, March 3). The verdict: disappointing progress in 1952, with prospects of worse performance...
This Year. The Lisbon Conference established 1) a minimum target of 50 divisions (25 ready to fight, 25 in reserve) and 4,000 aircraft by the end of 1952 2) a buildup program to 70 divisions by 1953, to 98 divisions and 10,000 aircraft by 1954. Promised such progress, Dwight D. Eisenhower commented: "Visible and within grasp we have the capability ... of such strength as the Communist world would never dare challenge...
BRITAIN, enmeshed in far-flung colonial police actions and still half broke, made plain by its answers that its 1953 contribution will fall about 40% below its Lisbon estimates for men, 50% for aircraft. Instead of reinforcing its army of the Rhine, the Tory government will present next week's NATO conference with only the assurance that, as yet, it does not contemplate withdrawing a single British soldier from the Continent. Partly in rationalization of their decision to hold strength at 1952 levels, the British talk airily of "new weapons" (e.g., U.S. atomic artillery) which might reduce the need...