Word: nato
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Already State's special NATO staff has drawn up position papers suggesting major changes in the West's diplomatic machinery. One suggested plan is to enlarge the Council of Europe (now largely a talking body) to include the U.S. and Canada. A possible alternate, now under study, is the creation of a permanent new NATO council of senior ministers. Under this plan, the present NATO military command would be reduced to the status of NATO's defense ministry...
...some specific reservations about a political NATO, which it plans to take up with its allies later this month when Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson comes to Washington for talks with Dulles. For one thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
Best evidence that it is high time for the evolution of a new, broader NATO came last week when even NATO's Gen eral Alfred Maximilian Gruenther was un able to muster up much congressional or public enthusiasm for the most sensible of pleas for foreign aid, made on the basis of the old NATO program...
Into the cavernous caucus room of the Senate Office Building last week marched NATO's General Alfred Gruenther. about to close out his distinguished Army career, on what he considered one of his most important missions: persuading the Senate Foreign Relations Committee not to vote cuts in the Administration's $4.7 billion foreign-aid program. Washington was crowded with holiday tourists, plenty of advance publicity had been given General Gruenther's appearance, and he could be counted upon for an eloquent, meaningful performance. But when the hearing opened only a handful of spectators and five Senators were...
With a huge map of Europe on his right and a rack of charts, e.g., of
NATO air strength, on his left. Al Gruenther spoke without notes for 45
minutes, effortlessly rattling off the complex statistics of defense
expenditures, populations and strength estimates, persuasively arguing
that Soviet "smiles, happy talk and receptions" in no way justify a
dilution of Western strength. Items: