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...Fronts From across the Atlantic the U.S. drew a heartening sense of security and achievement. In Lisbon, the 14 nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on a pattern for a new European Army which will include the forces of Western Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). Before the European Army becomes a fact, there are still some difficult parliamentary hurdles to be crossed and ancient rivalries to be soothed. Nonetheless, the Lisbon agreement rose last week as a historic landmark in the defense of free men-and an impressive accomplishment of U.S. diplomacy...
...very sheen of the achievement that exposed the shabbiness of Western diplomacy across the Pacific. In Korea, the major allies of triumphant Lisbon listlessly pursued a stalemate. In Indo-China, French forces fell back from the hard-won gains made by the late General de Lattre de Tassigny. On Washington's high levels there was talk that sounded like defeatism for the Pacific, e.g., that U.S. air power lies virtually at the mercy of a Chinese Communist buildup which now numbers 1,700 planes (including 900 jets...
NATO Substantial Achievement In Lisbon's sunny setting, the top diplomats of the free world last week burst out with unexpected optimism. "Dawn is breaking," said Dean Acheson of the U.S., "and a new day is dawning for all of us." Proclaimed Britain's Anthony Eden: "The beginning...
They had gathered in Lisbon for the ninth meeting of the North Atlantic Alliance. Perhaps the dark they had just been through made them overeager to proclaim the dawn. Yet their optimism was also grounded in substantial achievement. Without bickering or hesitation, the 35 foreign, defense and finance ministers' of the 14 Western allies had: ¶ Endorsed for the first time German rearmament and the long-proposed European Army. This cleared the way for the continental six-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-to negotiate a treaty fusing their armed forces into an internationalized, one-uniform...
Things looked darkest for the European Army just before the NATO session began (TIME, Feb. 25). Then four men gathered in London. Sitting down with Lisbon's Big Three-Acheson of the U.S., Eden of Britain, Schuman of France-was a man who was not even invited to Lisbon: Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. They met because West Germany's price for joining the European Army had collided head on with France's price for letting Germany...