Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head your May 21 article "Georgia Loses" and admit that Senator George is a great statesman and Herman Talmadge is the overwhelming choice of the Georgia voters for Senator; with Statesman George as ambassador to NATO and ex-Governor Talmadge as Georgia's preferred Senator, it is hard to see how Georgia loses...
...time has come to advance NATO from its initial phase into the totality of its meaning," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. "Let us exalt freedom by showing better what freedom can do." Thus, a scant six weeks ago, the U.S. signaled a major new direction in foreign policy. By last week the State Department had set up a six-man staff that was hard at work translating Dulles' challenging words into some specific proposals. The U.S. aim is to gather the 15 NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar...
...Named veteran Foreign Service Officer Julius C. Holmes, currently minister to Tangier, to examine "means to extend NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields." This means speeding the conversion of NATO from a narrow military pact into the broader politico-economic alliance that Secretary Dulles has been hinting...
...more basically, Dick Richards, long a bipartisan-minded supporter of the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy, feels a distinct wilt of enthusiasm because the Administration has never made ringingly clear where it is headed in foreign aid after this year. Said Richards: "Germany is lagging on rearmament. France is using NATO divisions and NATO equipment in North Africa. Great Britain is cutting down her own defense establishment and talking about abolishing the draft. Italy is talking with emphasis on economic and not military aid from now on. If that's going to be the attitude we'd better slow...
Alarmed by the House committee cuts, the Administration stiffened its resistance to further cuts and summoned NATO's retiring commander, General Alfred Gruenther, to rebut Richards' arguments this week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But prospects of success were poor; in the absence of White House direction, sentiment in both houses is much as Dick Richards crystalized...