Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, Dulles continued emphatically, the "problem of military balance" does not yet permit "any reduction in the strength of NATO forces in Europe" (and the current effort to adjust and streamline NATO divisions to make them "more mobile and better adapted to modern warfare" should not be confused with any reduction in strength). Thus, said Dulles, the U.S. will stand pat against those who insist that Russia's problems in Eastern Europe are any excuse for a dilution of strength in Western Europe...
...comedown was considerable from the high hopes of Lisbon in 1952, when the NATO council set a goal of 65 "ready" divisions. In 1954 NATO cut back its hopes, adopted a "new look" strategy based on the use of tactical atomic weapons behind a thin "plateglass" shield of infantry, and put the new target at 30 divisions. The plate glass was getting thinner all the time. Last week NATO could field only 15 "shield" divisions, of which five were U.S., four British, to defend the line from the Alps to the Baltic...
...Dual Purpose." One after another, NATO's European members insisted that their economies could not stand any stronger drain on their resources. The answer, they argued, was to provide more firepower with fewer men. How? Equip all NATO divisions with tactical atomic weapons. Since Britain's atomic production is too limited to supply even its own divisions adequately, this came down to a demand on the U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles Wilson pointed out that U.S. law bans the sale of U.S. atomic weapons, but he agreed that the U.S. would supply and train Europeans...
Appointed last week to the top administrative post in NATO: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian statesman and longtime champion of European unity. He will succeed able, self-effacing Lord Ismay, who retires as Secretary-General in April. Spaak will be given more power than Ismay...
...forefront of every effort toward European unity, impatient at "lip service" and "halfway measures toward that end as he has been active and ardent in support of practical progress." "To believe that we can still defend our selves, by ourselves," he told the Belgians last year, in support of NATO "is completely absurd." And he added: "For me, NATO must also be the political center of the West." Speaking in Moscow at the time of the Suez invasion and the Russian intervention in Hungary, he came back to denounce U.N., privately but in strong terms, for being ineffectual. Personality: Sometimes...