Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway through his three-day meeting with the Kremlin leaders, Mollet invited the Moscow ambassadors of twelve NATO countries to lunch, to assure them that the Russians now knew they could not split NATO. "It took a Socialist, a man of the left, to convince them," he said. "I fought harder for NATO here in Moscow than I ever did in Paris...
...right that such important questions as Cyprus and the Middle East have so far not been discussed in NATO. If three years ago NATO had calmly and quietly discussed Cyprus, I can imagine that the present conflict could have been avoided...
...NATO (with animation) : "The political development of NATO is essential. It is nonsense to believe one can have a common military policy without also having a common basic foreign policy. But no steps have been taken to stress the political role of NATO. When NATO was created there was serious danger of a hot war. Now the Russians have postponed this idea, but they haven't given it up. They concentrate now on political warfare and on infiltration. NATO must ad just itself to this new situation...
...Take the danger in the Middle East. Is it not a question for NATO? But so far NATO has been silent. Our governments should give their NATO representatives information and instructions necessary to enable them to discuss such matters. It is as though these NATO ambassadors live on remote islands far from their motherlands and without instructions...
Rambling along the Gaza strip last week on a Moslem holiday tour of army bases and refugee camps, Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser heard a radio bulletin: the U.S. had approved a French shipment to Israel of twelve Mystère jet fighters out of its NATO stocks. Egypt's soldier-strongman blew up: the French jets, added to a dozen Mystères and 24 Ouragan jets already shipped, would undo much of the advantage Egypt had gained by buying Soviet-bloc arms...