Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin's will (see below). Instead, the Kremlin turned to the one surviving European Communist leader with a certified anti-Stalin record: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. In the Kremlin's new reckoning, Tito was a "cleanskin" who could persuade neutralist and socialist governments, and waverers in NATO and SEATO, that the Soviet change of heart is genuine...
...announced 1,200,000-man cut in Russian military personnel is nothing more than "a unilateral demobilization program behind closed doors," and will not substantially affect their military potential. If the manpower cut were carried out, it would reduce Russian land forces from 175 to 115 divisions-and NATO has already estimated that with nuclear firepower the Soviet "could be fully as effective with 100 divisions...
...NATO is by no means ready to sustain such a loss as contemplated by the proposed foreign-aid cuts (which International Cooperation Administrator John Hollister last week estimated would more than halve the allowance for NATO's military hardware over the next fiscal year).' Gruenther said that the full West German contributions of twelve divisions and 1,380 aircraft will not be available for three more years. Not until then will NATO really be strong enough to defend West Europe against Russia...
...protect our supply of oil. No oil-hunger and unemployment in Britain. It's as simple as that." This was certainly plain speaking. Eden went farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO...
...necessary to any solution. But if Britain has to back down, it is entitled to know that any settlement it makes is not undone by some future wave of passion, such as eventually drove its troops first from Egypt itself and then from the Suez Canal. This is where NATO (which is seeking new tasks for itself) might usefully step in. If Greece can be satisfied by the pace and genuineness of self-determination, if Britain can in return secure its Cyprus base, then their agreement might well be guaranteed by NATO, thereby being underwritten not only by the interested...