Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles E. Wilson, 66, who wanted to retire long before last week's National Guard explosion (see below), but has promised to stay until the 1958 military budget has cleared Congress. To succeed Charlie Wilson, Ike leans toward General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, who recently retired as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Since the National Security Act specifically precludes military men from the Defense Secretary's job, Ike must get congressional dispensation to name Gruenther. If either Congress or Gruenther demurs, the post may go to another able candidate. Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles...
Election year in West Germany is producing some strange surprises. Last week, after seven years of stubborn resistance to the Western alliance and all its works and most of its ways, West Germany's opposition Socialists declared themselves ready to accept NATO...
...remembered that as a high staff officer in the occupation he had prevented the SS from shooting hostages. Later Speidel won the sympathies of the Danes, Belgians and Dutch by criticizing French plans to defend Europe only as far east as the Rhine. He made himself so agreeable throughout NATO's top echelons, in fact, that the Germans had practically no choice but to name him to the new job-his first field command since he bossed a Grenadier battalion in his native Württemberg 21 years...
Sandys is now mulling over the idea of replacing conscription with U.S.-style selective service. He is also preparing to reduce Britain's NATO forces in Germany. With British forces gone from Iraq, going from Ceylon, and practically expelled from their last two bases in Jordan, experts are advising him to bring all remaining colonial garrisons home, at least from Asia. Sandys is prepared to go far, but not so far as British Military Expert Captain Basil Liddell Hart, who last week urged Britain to put all its reliance on nuclear weapons, and chop its defense budget by nearly...
...episode among NATO partners matches the savage anti-Greek riots that swept Izmir and Istanbul the night of Sept. 6, 1955. Until then the mutual quarrel over Cyprus had been furiously propagandistic but not violent. That night, ostensibly aroused by reports of an explo sion in Salonika that damaged the birthplace of Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk, the rioters swarmed through the streets wrecking and smashing anything Greek. In one night of Turkish terror, 300 people were injured, 4,000 stores looted, 78 Greek Orthodox churches gutted...