Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advancing Concepts. After four postoperative weeks Dulles returned from Key West, flew a few days later to the Dec. 11 meeting of the NATO Council in Paris. There, separately, the British and French Foreign Ministers told him that the U.S.'s principal job was to make its presence felt in the Middle East. Dulles assured them both that a way would be found to do it. The objective: developing a long range U.S. initiative to fill the post-Suez power deficit and to work toward an enduring stability...
...interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption of these resolutions, irrespective of their possible merits," said U.S, Delegate James Wadsworth, "would exacerbate the situation." The Greeks were happy as long as the U.S. did not openly side with the British...
...NATO's Norstad was not surprised by the long-expected British cutback, but he was nonetheless pained. In secret talks that preceded last week's announcement, Airman Norstad was concerned by the widespread tendency to say that ground troops no longer matter, since they can be compensated for by more technological weapons. If the British reason for reduction in force is economic, he pleaded, they owe it to their partners to say so. This the British did. This explanation, Norstad hoped, would not give other NATO nations an excuse to follow suit, since all of them except...
After the British cuts, Norstad will have fewer than 15 divisions in his command-though the French have promised to restore to the NATO shield "as soon as possible" two divisions withdrawn last year for service in North Africa...
...Bonn, West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who has pledged to field three of seven promised NATO divisions this summer, last week showed off the new German uniforms, almost identical with the army and Luftwaffe uniforms of World War II .The German army boot was back too, but this time with a difference. "Gentlemen," grinned Strauss to an audience assembled to view the new uniforms, "these boots do not permit heel-clicking or the reverberating sound of marching. These boots are fitted with demokratisch-bürgerliche Gummisohlen [democratic civilian rubber soles...