Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously such a broad new venture would not be without domestic U.S. opponents-whom Nixon, perhaps, was better placed than Eisenhower or Dulles to convince and win over. Even Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey took to a podium in the Waldorf-Astoria before flying to Paris for the NATO meeting to assert that some estimates of Western Europe's need for new U.S. aid had been "greatly exaggerated. The fact is that in all probability existing institutions will be able to provide most of the assistance that may be needed." But the fact also was that any aid program...
...meeting that has been held." Saying this, John Foster Dulles last week stepped aboard a special MATS Constellation and headed for Paris and the semiannual ministerial meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His own convalescence at an end, Dulles was determined to bring good health to an ailing NATO...
...Western alliance had been softened by destalinization, shaken by the British-Greek dispute over Cyprus, severely strained by headlong Anglo-French action in the Middle East. But John Foster Dulles was nonetheless confident that the damage could be repaired and that this week's NATO sessions would "strengthen the bonds that unite the treaty members to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their peoples...
Dulles had some cause for confidence. Soviet brutality in Hungary had once again impressed upon the mind of Western Europe the need for NATO as a defense shield. On hand with Dulles in Paris were Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, both determined that NATO should not let down its guard. And in the face of the Soviet threat, other NATO members were no longer so anxious to cut costs by slashing NATO manpower...
...They said I was too old to run for Senator again, and that people would vote against me," he recalls. "I said I had made up my mind to serve until I am 100, and that ended that!" In London last week, after ten days in Paris as a NATO conference delegate, Senator Green, 89, became "he oldest man ever to serve in the Congress, surpassing the record of North Carolina's late Democratic Representative Robert ("Muley") Doughton, whose term ended in 1953 when Doughton was 89 years 56½ days. Then, thanking lots of walking and other exercise...