Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the first rash of headlines, the U.S.-publicly and officially-took the announcement as it should have been taken: calmly. Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower took note of the Communists' "boastful statement." NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad noted tersely that the Russians had made blackmail threats before, had failed before. "Then," he said, "the alliance was unshaken, even unimpressed. So it will...
...father, John has Ike's grin and his parents' blue eyes, the Eisenhower receding hairline. His entire life has been touched by the climactic moments of his father's career as the top Allied commander of World War II, President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President of the U.S. Few Presidents' sons have handled themselves so well. Says one Army friend: "Most of us have to fight to get ahead, but John can't throw his weight around, since it might reflect on his father...
...ballots during the last Bundestag session, the Christian Democrats and their supporters had split on more than 100. "Who did they say was not democratic?" snorted Adenauer. "We do not impose ironclad discipline on our members." Then Adenauer hit out at the Socialists on foreign policy. "We stand by NATO and above all by a unified Europe," said the Chancellor. "Where do the Socialists stand...
...high schools will dismiss 119 native teachers whose purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses one of the rare means its citizens enjoy for getting to know the people among whom they find themselves." ¶ The Veterans Administration reported that the Korean G.I. bill, just five years old last week, has so far given nearly 2,000,000 out of 5,100,000 veterans...
...others who do not produce so efficiently?" Britain and France argue in return that ever since World War II their economies have carried a heavy arms burden, while Germany for years had no army of its own, and now that it has one, has yet to meet its NATO pledges. In a less argumentative way, Erhard points to the fact that West Germany still runs a deficit ($600 million last year) in its trade with the U.S., and blandly suggests that he might be prepared to revalue the Deutsche Mark if the U.S. would take "moral leadership" by revaluing...