Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia can no longer trust its satellite armies. In fact, it must in future be on guard against hostile acts by the 1,500,000-satellite troops who have been equipped with Soviet arms as the Communist answer to NATO. This discovery comes on top of Russia's widely advertised reduction of its own army by 1,200,000 men. (The Budapest fighting also showed that the Kremlin cannot count on the loyalty of all Russian soldiers...
...international thaw, which began with the death of Stalin and continued at the Big Four campfire at Geneva, may have diminished the momentum of NATO, but it hurt the Communists worse...
...time and it was well for the bogged-down U.S. that Ike was working out his own political philosophy and amassing some more civilian and diplomatic qualifications. From his job as president of Columbia University (1948-50) President Truman recalled him to command and to fuse the forces of NATO, the heart of U.S. and Western European foreign policy. There Ike began to hear the mounting summons of Republicans and independents ("What a mess our blessed nation is in," the dying Senator Vandenberg had cried, adding hopefully, "Thank God for Eisenhower") urging him to come home...
...toward world disarmament, and the frequent good-will tours in which he has sent members of his Cabinet and of his family: You do not mention the achievements of the settlement of the Iran and Trieste disputes, the unification of Austria, the rearmament of Germany and its incorporation into NATO, and the reconstruction of Korea...
...cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world it has showed itself in the nagging vitality of NATO, Iceland's decision to get rid ot U.S. troops, the division and rancors among the allies over Cyprus, Formosa, North Africa and Suez...