Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a White House blessing, Defense Secretary Wilson last week ordered the armed forces to slash their current authorized manpower (2,800,000) by 100,000, thereby enabling the Pentagon to reduce its 1958 budget needs by almost $200 million. To reassure U.S. allies abroad, especially NATO, Wilson carefully pointed out that the cuts could be made "without materially affecting deployments of major combat units abroad, including those in Western Europe...
...authoritative Jane's Fighting Ships, passed through the Dardanelles under escort of three destroyers. Earlier, three Soviet submarines entered the Mediterranean by way of Gibraltar (and were turned over to Egypt). Russia was telling the world that Mare Nostrum means Russia's as well as NATO...
...Much was made of the fact that Ike's trip was the first U.S. presidential helicopter flight. Actually, Eisenhower is no whirlybird newcomer; as NATO commander (1951-52) he racked up many copter hours inspecting troops and installations in Western Europe. * Asked the Boston Globe's Herbert Kenny: "Will Ike find rapport / at Newport? / Will his temper distort / at Newport? / Would the weather dare thwart / his transport of sport / the day they escort / Ike to the seaport of Newport...
...British were now willing to negotiate with the once banished Archbishop Makarios. The Cypriots would have to agree not to unite with Greece or Turkey. Theoretically they would be free to stay inside the British Commonwealth but would not have to. Defense facilities on the island would be in NATO's name, but British in fact...
...should press for, he argued, is a solution under which Algeria would win political independence but France would keep some form of economic "interdependence." He urged the Senate to pass a double-barreled resolution calling upon the Administration to try to bring about an independence-with-interdependence settlement through NATO or the "good offices" of Tunisian and Moroccan leaders, and, if there is no substantial progress toward the goal by the time the U.N. General Assembly meets next September, to support "an international effort" toward the goal of Algerian independence...