Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with atomic rocket weapons. Task Force 66, recently detached, but on constant call, is a submarine hunter-killer group led by Antietam, a 30,000-ton attack carrier with 80 planes. All together, this taut and lethal fleet consumes more than 50,000 tons of fuel per month. Although NATO supply bases are available for emergencies, the U.S. Navy expects that they will be easy enemy targets in wartime; the Sixth Fleet, therefore, brings most of its supplies all the way over from the Eastern...
...former NATO commander in Europe, brainy General Alfred M. Gruenther, 57, dropped in at the White House to pay his respects to Old Friend Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Al Gruenther's Distinguished Service Medal Ike pinned a third Oak Leaf Cluster, wished him well in his forthcoming presidency of the American Red Cross. That afternoon Gruenther mistily watched a "retreat parade" in his honor, then met some 600 friends who gave him a farewell handshake in observance of his 38-year military career that ends this week...
...policy was about to make a dramatic shift. The New York Times, along with a host of other newspapers, revealed that the U.S. had "agreed" on a new peacemaking effort involving negotiations not only toward a watered-down disarmament plan but also toward a considerable reduction in the opposing NATO-Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. Such stories misrepresented actual U.S. policy planning, but the newsmen could hardly be blamed. They were merely reflecting the not-for-attribution opinions of Presidential Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen...
While Secretary of State Dulles and other U.S. representatives were still in Paris at the NATO meeting (TIME, Dec. 24) trying to persuade the Western allies to maintain NATO's military strength, Harold Stassen met in Washington with newsmen in a confidential briefing session. From that session came the rash of news stories that seemed doubly authoritative because Harold Stassen, in his anonymity, had masked himself as the voice of U.S. policy...
...more than restating the long-obvious fact that the Eisenhower Admin istration will not cease its disarmament efforts-with realistic safeguards-so long as any possibility of success exists. But in leading his listeners to think that the U.S. may be on the verge of bargaining away NATO's strength, or about to make a cynical deal with the Russians, Harold Stassen flew his trial balloon too high, forced Secretary Dulles to haul it down discreetly at his press conference...