Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broad View. Next day Secretary Dulles flew off to the meeting of the NATO ministerial council in Paris. phrasing mark-time generalities on his program for expanding the scope of NATO (see FOREIGN NEWS). Questioned on foreign aid at the presidential press conference later in the week, Ike also seemed anxious to keep to broad terms. But he insisted on one point: "The present program has been built up on what we believe to be a minimum basis," and should not be cut. He hoped to see a commission formed that would start from this basis, report by about...
...Explained Ike: theoretically the idea is sound, but practically the U.N. is much too muddied by international politics for the Lodge idea to work. Our efforts, he said, must be as of now largely on a "bilateral basis." In Paris Secretary Dulles was unwilling to channel aid through NATO lest the act be misconstrued as resurgent Western colonialism. By rejecting these two outlets, the Administration was laying down some ground rules for Ike's long-range review...
Beyond accepting this premise, John Foster Dulles himself seemed a little vague on what was to be done (TIME, April 30), talked of his willingness to listen, and had no blueprints. Even so, the U.S. change of course was important and welcome. It came at a time when many NATO nations are regretful about the retirement (in November) of General Al Gruenther, discouraged at the disunity among partners caused by issues such as Cyprus, and dilatory over honoring their military commitments, out of a growing conviction that war is not just around the corner...
...long held back from the shift it has now made, because it was convinced that NATO is not the best grouping to deal with economic matters. The OEEC (Organization for European Economic Cooperation) includes the same Western European nations, and, in addition, the two important trading nations, Switzerland and Sweden, who as neutrals have no desire to join NATO. Other nations have reservations about grandiose plans to offer aid to underdeveloped countries through NATO. Said one French official: "For these nations, NATO is a soldiers' club. Any government of an underdeveloped country accepting aid from it would have come...
...what prevailed over these misgivings was a universal feeling that NATO needs a new lift to face a changing world. It may not be the best combination of nations for its new tasks, but it is the only cluster of Western powers that has real meaning for the European public: it represents to Europeans the one place where they have sworn their vows of fealty to the West, and, just as important, the one place where the U.S. has by solemn treaty pledged to them its strength and support...