Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London Observer this week reflected a line familiar around the British Foreign Office: "In practice ... we must be prepared to accept an internationally guaranteed status outside NATO for a free, united Germany." After Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called neutralism "obsolete" in his Ames, Iowa speech (TIME, June 18), European newspapers and politicians accused Dulles of trying to restore a "tough" foreign policy behind the convalescing President's back. Along Washington's Embassy Row, diplomats were saying that Adenauer is "the last holdout in the cold...
Principal aim of Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...
...NATO. Dulles swapped visions and ideas with Canada's visiting Secretary for External Affairs Lester Pearson on their joint crusade to build the 15-nation NATO pact into some form of political community (TIME, April 30 et seq.). "We are only in the first innings," Pearson emphasized. "Our own views," echoed...
...they hold their strength, they are isolated and sterile. A new way of infiltrating Western Europe is needed-a way of bringing down the barriers that Stalin's madness erected against Russia. The active hostility of the Western world must be numbed; perhaps even the military resolution of NATO can be sapped. At the height of the cold war each side knew where it stood; now the Communists seek to blur distinctions, so that Moscow Communism fades imperceptibly into "independent" Communism, which in turn fades imperceptibly into neutralism, so that in time the neutralist may be hard to distinguish...
With these three achievements, he was ready to face the U.S., and in a position to reassure his allies that Germany means to keep its army pledge to NATO after...