Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the speech will probably mean little in practice. Because the President expects only unity, not conformity, does not mean that Red China will be admitted to the United Nations. The President's censure of self-rightiousness probably will not prevent John Foster Dulles from demanding special privileges in NATO. The moral approval of sharing burdens will not make the burdens much easier to share economically...
...Perhaps, but then so did the Marshall Plan, NATO and other proven ways of stopping Communist aggression...
WEST GERMANY The third Man In West Germany, this is an election year, and the telltale signs could already be detected up and down the Rhine. That rugged defender of NATO, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, battling fiercely for a third term at 81, called for a ban on the H-bomb without even mentioning safeguards, and labeled the Soviet plan to pull troops out of Central Europe a helpful step to reduce international tensions. Out to prove his "flexibility" in the cause of German reunification, the Chancellor invited the Russians to hold trade talks with West Germany, but also was hoping...
...Changed Man. Surrendering office after the Christian Democratic landslide of 1953, Maier cultivated an icy enmity toward Adenauer, fought a bitter losing battle in the Bundestag at Bonn against NATO, rearmament and Adenauer's Saar policy. Two years ago he paid his first visit to the U.S. He returned to Stuttgart with the excited air of a Columbus. "The Americans really are democrats," he bubbled. He was through sniping at Adenauer. "Der Alte will do all right," he said. "But what will come after? We must call to our U.S. friends: 'Stop seeing in Konrad Adenauer the only...
...Before 700 gynecologists the Pope discussed painless childbirth; he lectured racing drivers and members of an Italian automobile club on politeness; he received Germany's Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius and U.S. Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss, the workers of Lombardy, the Roman nobility, 360 U.S. servicemen from NATO, and officials of the U.N. Office of Public Information. Baptist ex-President Harry Truman came to see him, as did Moslem President Sukarno of Indonesia, the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, the Seventh International Astronautical Congress, to whom he said that their efforts to explore the universe were legitimate before...