Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens that everybody starts to catch this habit, we shall have no objection. But I think we are entitled to say that we were the first to start it." And Minister of Defense Sir Walter Monckton, though conceding that the Russians would still have 237 divisions under arms v. NATO's 100, announced that Britain was reducing its armed forces by another...
...Their action put an added strain on the creaking NATO structure. The Russians reason that NATO was welded together by fear. Reduce the fear, and the alliance may yet fall apart...
...reunification before rearmament, and England has become distressed at the lack of high level consultation on major policy decisions. Dulles' responses to these situations, however, have been generally flexible and adequate, although the German problem is certainly far from solved. And his recent statement that he now sees NATO must shift--slightly--into the economic and political spheres, is encouraging...
...certainly no salvation for the present, said West Germany's Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano next day. He and the Adenauer administration are having trouble enough to meet their minimum obligations to NATO in the prevailing apathy. Until the Russian changes prove much more trustworthy, he indicated, it is premature to let wolves into the same pen with the sheep...
...secretary and protector. When she died five years ago, his friends feared that he would never recover from the shock. He managed to make an adjustment, and in 1952, when he was 70, Von Karman became chairman of AGARD (Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development), set up by NATO on his recommendation. Its job is to review advances in aeronautical science for application to the defense problems of the Western nations, and Von Karman, with his many languages, eminence and friendship with everyone in the field, is perhaps the only man alive who could make the thing work...