Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfolding his breakfast newspaper one morning last week in Paris, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles received an egg-curdling shock. Addressing the NATO conference opening session one day earlier, Dulles had carefully set the tone of U.S. participation with an appeal for moral principles in international affairs, cited the British-French cease-fire in Egypt as a compliance with morality. But his newspaper bannered a point-blank refutation of Dulles' argument by an influential American diplomat: his breakfast host, Ambassador Clarence Douglas Dillon. Returning briefly to the U.S. last fortnight, Dillon had paused in Washington to record...
Back from Paris last weekend flew Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to report to President Eisenhower on what he called the "important and productive" meeting of the NATO Council (see FOREIGN NEWS). On balance, the evidence bore out the Secretary's estimate. Militarily, the council had revised its ideas on mutual defense to take account of modern weapons-and the U.S. had promised to supply NATO with arms capable of firing atomic warheads, while keeping the warheads in reserve. Politically, the members had agreed on a high degree of foreign-policy consultation and coordination, even though...
...this lesson is not to force Nehru to condemn Soviet aggression--he has done this already, even if the condemnation was painfully slow in coming; the point is to emphasize to India's leader that the problems of Europe are different from those of Asia, and that the NATO alliance, backed by rifles and regulars, is one key to the containment of Communism in Europe. Asians have always been slow to accept the fact that the Soviet Union's satellites are satellites, and if the former military commander of NATO can help to change this attitude, it will have been...
...past decade, MacArthur has worked almost continuously with Dwight Eisenhower as a knowing and capable adviser. In 1944 he was assigned to General Eisenhower's wartime headquarters as a political adviser on France, later shared in the formation of NATO, performed so well that in 1951 Ike borrowed...
Translating the importance of NATO's future into business terms, retiring NATO General Alfred M. Gruenther told the businessmen: "What is at stake in the world today is the free-enterprise system. The Soviets realize that if this system can prevail, their system is doomed to failure." To meet Communist competition, said World Bank President Eugene R. Black, U.S. business must use "energy and imagination," to expand into the underdeveloped areas of the world...