Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy was under consideration in the White House: the President might fly to New York to appear before the U.N. General Assembly, to assure the U.N. that U.S. troops were available and ready to stop any Russian incursion. Meanwhile, the U.S. had reassured the jittery French and British through NATO's retiring General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (see below), that any Soviet move to rocket-bomb London and Paris would be met by atomic retaliation...
...British and French, while willing to snuggle down again in the NATO fold, had not yet abandoned the campaign to get the U.S. back of their private national interests in the Middle East. And the U.S., in turn, deferred its emergency plans to ship oil to Britain and western Europe (see BUSINESS...
...headquarters in the peaceful countryside near Paris, NATO's retiring General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, smiled a bony smile. One big thing still needed to be said publicly to back up the week's U.S. diplomacy. Now Gruenther, with specific White House authority, set about saying it in terms that no Communist geopolitician could misunderstand. "The main purpose and the guiding principle that we always have," he began, "is to deter a war from taking place . . . Probably the outstanding element in the deterrent as of today, the 13th of November, 1956, is the fact...
...sucessor as Red Cross president NATO'S retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther...
...repression. Even party comrades were repelled. Other satellites stirred. It was necessary to create new diversions. With a flourish of phrases ("faithful to its policy of ensuring peace") Radio Moscow announced that Russia was now "ready to examine" President Eisenhower's "open sky" aerial inspection plan. deployment" between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, which would allow the West to inspect satelliteland and a sliver of Russia, but permit Russian planes to fly over a disarmed Germany, most of France, and half of Britain...