Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this warning that they were not to be dissuaded, the British last week served notice that they would cut their NATO contribution from the present 80,000 troops in West Germany to perhaps...
...those London dinners where white ties and tails and decorations are worn. The honored guest, NATO's new Supreme Commander. U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, heard himself felicitously toasted but also told in plain language by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "Insurance is a fine thing, but overinsurance can be debilitating . . . What the balance should be, under our democratic society, is a matter for statesmen responsible to their Parliaments and their people...
...meeting between Ike and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (at Ike's suggestion), March 21 through 24. One point up for discussion in Bermuda: a proposal by the financially pressed Macmillan government that 1) the British cut the strength of their four NATO divisions by up to 30,000 men, and 2) the U.S. make up the difference in firepower by supplying guided missiles to the remaining British forces...
LONDON, Feb. 14--Britain formally told her NATO allies today she must cut the number of British troops in Western Germany...
...Socialism's sake, Party Chairman Erich Ollenhauer had himself one of the best days of his parliamentary career. Carefully endorsing the U.S. stand on Suez and Hungary as "prudent," he announced that Socialists favor honoring Germany's treaty obligations "including those of a military nature," i.e., in NATO. Abandoning another longtime Socialist position, the party now accepts a standing army...