Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO air base there...
...Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their use of force. In short, so long as Britain, France and Israel had not purged themselves of their aggressions, they were on their own. But Eisenhower had also served notice on the Kremlin in a White...
...allies of Britain and France-their NATO partners, Britain's Commonwealth members, the fellow members of Britain's Baghdad Pact-only Australia and New Zealand stood by their side in the U.N. Assembly...
Germany was worried by fears of what might happen to NATO. Predicted one foreign office man: "Many little strains and disagreements may now become big strains and big disagreements...
...Where is NATO? The UN? Where are the Americans? The British? The French? We listened to your radios. We believed in freedom. There is no time now for conferences and discussion. Give us arms. Send the bombers. Crush the Soviet terror which is about to end our hard-won liberty...