Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrators opposed the decision (see BUSINESS). In an off-the-cuff opinion, he suggested that Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen's proposal to limit income taxes to a 25% ceiling might get the Government into "a very rigid fix." He revealed that he had persuaded retiring NATO Commander General Alfred Gruenther not to retire "for a long time, but I couldn't do it forever...
...statesmen arrived in a cloud of hopeful generalities. NATO must be transformed into "a more effective agency for consultation and cooperation," said Canada's "Mike" Pearson. John Foster Dulles talked of searching out ways of "advancing NATO from its initial place into the totality of its meaning...
...sweaty spring heat of the conference room in Paris' Palais de Chaillot, the 15 NATO foreign ministers seemed to have many ideas about what NATO should not do, very few about what it should. "We have no solid idea of what to pursue," admitted NATO's able Secretary General Lord Ismay. "Some people seem to think that we need work to do to keep us out of mischief...
...Negatives. Dulles had talked tentatively of NATO channeling aid to underdeveloped countries in the Middle East or North Africa. But even before the conference opened. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd rejected the idea of NATO aid in the Middle or Far East, pointing to the Baghdad Pact as a better instrument in the Middle East, the Colombo Plan in Asia. And the French stiffly declared that they were quite capable of supplying all the economic aid North Africa needs and wanted no help from their allies...
...pencil. Then he spoke, beginning by reiterating the need for maintaining the West's defenses. The most urgent new problem was how to keep the underdeveloped countries out of the Communists' hands. Then. he. too, launched into negatives. The U.S. did not think NATO should be converted into an economic body, either to channel aid or to plan it. If NATO tried to develop economic programs to help, it might be misrepresented as a revival of Western colonialism in economic form. Dulles favors expanding NATO's political instead of its economic role. He would...