Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Selected as Army Vice Chief of Staff: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 57, replacing General Williston Palmer, who will go to Europe to be deputy U.S. commander in chief under NATO Commander Lauris J. Norstad. Paratrooper Lemnitzer succeeded General Maxwell Taylor as Far East Ground Commander and chief of the U.S. Far East Command, is an odds-on favorite to follow him as Chief of Staff...
Answer in Kind. Now, with the prospect of NATO missile bases in Britain and West Germany-and perhaps in Turkey, Italy and Norway as well-the Soviets could no longer threaten clear and present danger to Western Europe with short-range nuclear missiles without fear of retaliation in kind. Neither the U.S. nor Russia will be equipped with a long-range nuclear missile force-in-being for some years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring...
...speak quite openly, Mr. Premier. The Norwegian people . . . might have to pay dearly for the bases which are built in Norway with foreign money, if the NATO strategists' plans are carried out. It is, of course, a natural right and duty for any state exposed to attack to make sure that the bases which are set up for the purpose of attack be liquidated at once. No one can expect anything else. The blow which would be directed toward destroying the aggressor's bases would inevitably hit much greater areas. One hydrogen bomb [can destroy] a radius...
Next day Harding and the government reached a compromise. The government would accept the recent offer of NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay to undertake conciliation of the Cyprus dispute among Greece. Turkey and Britain. They also agreed to renew their offer to free Makarios (but not to return him to Cyprus), provided he publicly called on EOKA to cease all violence. But, at Harding's insistence, the government agreed to make no mention of negotiating with him, now or ever...
...matter of hours, Greece rejected the offer of NATO conciliation (which Greece had once favored) on the ground that "the Cypriot people cannot be bound by any decision taken in their absence." Mission accomplished, Harding prepared to fly back to Cyprus where British troops inexorably drove on into the mountains, carrying out his orders to crush the last EOKA survivors. The Cypriots-tired of terrorism and tired of counter-terrorism -resigned themselves to more of both...