Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound politician's instincts. His veto of the ill-smelling natural gas bill last February and of the farm bill, his utter frankness about his health, and last week his swift appointment of the Senate's most distinguished Democrat, Georgia's retiring Walter George, to a NATO ambassadorship (see below) -all these have turned resoundingly to his political account...
There, steaming from Istanbul to Athens in the Mediterranean, is Vice Admiral Harry D. Felt's Sixth Fleet-soon to include the bristling guided-missile cruiser Canberra*-offering defense-in-depth to NATO's long, thin southern flank and imposing its stable strength on Middle Eastern foment. There, riding at anchor in the soft swell of Okinawa's Buckner Bay, is Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were...
...William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty the regiments whose instant readiness to fly to Middle East danger spots was supposed to be Britain's main reason for hanging on to the Cyprus base...
Embarrassing Pressures. Much of the new impulse to broaden NATO was compounded more of embarrassments than of urgency. With the Soviet talking peace, it was embarrassing to some to have the Atlantic community talking only of arms. Some of the smaller nations, wanting aid which would inevitably come from the U.S., hoped NATO could make such aid more anonymous-and therefore without strings or need of gratitude. The old Big Three (U.S., Britain, France) were a little sensitive about the demand from other NATO nations for more voice in the councils of the mighty. Last week Canada's Pearson...
Rather than grapple unpreparedly with the issues raised by Pearson, the NATO ministers quickly approved Dulles' suggestion of a committee, and named Canada's Pearson, Italy's Gaetano Martino, and Norway's Halvard Lange to see what they could think of by next fall...