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From Down to Up. With these decisions made beforehand in London, and endorsed in Lisbon by the NATO council, the gloom lifted almost too easily. In Lisbon's sunlight it was hard to face the big, sobering fact: that NATO's decisions are only decisions on paper...
Limited Commitments. The optimistic men of Lisbon were handicapped by being able to commit only their governments, but not necessarily their parliaments or their people. Once the European Army treaty is negotiated, it can still be rejected by the suspicious Bundestag...
...government that cannot be thrown out until June 1953, but probably could not get re-elected tomorrow. Acheson spoke for an administration unsure of its ability to keep the all-vital dollars flowing from Congress (the known suspicions of Congress were a great help in knocking heads together in Lisbon). Eden spoke for a country whose bipartisanship in foreign policy is threatened by party differences for the first time since...
...immensity of the job still facing the builders of Western defense was obscured, like the beggars of Lisbon, by the convenient arrangements of the moment. But just like the beggars, who began shuffling back into the streets of Lisbon again this week, the problems of NATO will be tugging at the West's coattails for a long time...
...view. "What an ignorant, superstitious, priest-ridden, dirty, lousy set of poor Devils are the Portuguese," he snorts, after his first look at the people whose country he is fighting to save. "The filthiest pigs sty is a palace to the filthy houses in this dirty stinking City [Lisbon] ... In the middle of the day the sunny sides of the streets swarms with men and women picking the vermin from their bodies, and it is no uncommon sight to see two respectively [sic] dressed persons meet and do a friendly office for each other by picking a few crawlers from...