Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather than crush our allies beneath a military burden, or force them into a European "Third Bloc," we can strengthen them and our ties with them through a vastly expanded program of economic exchange inside the framework of NATO...
...struggle for peaceful co-existence the free world has been continually on the defensive. Accordingly, its foreign policy has consisted primarily of building or re-building the strength of the pro-western nations, particularly the European democracies. These countries, united within the defense alliance of NATO, were meant to deter aggression through a show of combined strength...
...they must not be pushed into neutrality through nearsighted policies formulated before the concept of a long cold war became a reality. Redefinition of this situation came when Secretary Dulles, as early as last April, saw the problem and presented the solution to it. He pledged a revision of NATO from a purely military alliance to a group of nations united by a common danger and a common philosophy and engaging in multilateral trade. Through such an expedient we could not only effectively weld a bond between ourselves and Europe, but, by means of the revitalizing impetus that trade gives...
...Even before the week was out the North Atlantic Council, meeting in an emergency session, publicly questioned the wisdom of the Chancellor's action and formally notified Bonn that military experts were doubtful that a twelve-month conscription period would allow West Germany to fulfill her promise to NATO to raise 500,000 troops by 1960. The difference between the U.S. Radford plan and Adenauer's plan for West Germany is a crucial one-West Germany, treaty-bound not to manufacture atomic weapons, has no nuclear firepower to substitute for manpower. As if belatedly noticing this...
...budget has gradually been balanced and, progress has been made in civil rights, with the capital and the armed services pointing the way. He also noted that the controls over our economy have gradually been lessened, the danger of inflation has been removed, Germany has been brought into the NATO alliance, and Japan has gained in economic stature...