Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point, the West had begun to sense that the U.S. was in the midst of a serious updating of its foreign policies, designed to meet the new Russian approach and to deal with a world relaxed by Russian displays of nonbelligerence, trade negotiation and foreign economic aid. The generalized NATO proposal, which Dulles will discuss broadly in Paris this week with the NATO ministers' council (see FOREIGN NEWS), was one instance-and a symbolic one. The U.S. plans no weakening of NATO's essential defense function, but wants to add to defense a solid community of interest growing...
Khrushchev plunged on, ignoring the traditional cry from a policeman in the corridors ("Who goes home?") announcing that the House of Commons had adjourned for the night. Khrushchev sneered at NATO; he threatened to deal with West Germany alone if the West persisted in rearming it; he brushed aside Eisenhower's proposed aerial inspection plan as "a fantasy," and added: "We don't want people walking into our bedroom...
...NATO Headlines rarely surround the meetings of the foreign ministers of the 15 NATO nations who often seem to be the talking, as opposed to the military, branch of NATO. But as the foreign ministers gathered in Paris this week, a rare expectancy was in the air. NATO's leading nation had at last accepted the proposition put forward long ago by Canada's "Mike" Pearson and Italy's Giovanni Gronchi-that NATO should broaden its strictly military base and serve as the free world's chosen instrument in politics and economics...
...Finally NATO could become an agency for political consultation and mutual policy determination between non-Soviet states, a multilateral agency for multilateral direction of non-Soviet international affairs. This would satisfy many European critics who resent the U.S. directing world economic and military aid by itself. Mutual defense requires mutual consultation...
...NATO might meet with some difficulty in executing its economic role. Non-Atlantic nations might find it difficult accepting aid from a previously military defense region. Previously mentioned export rivalries might also prove obstructive. These must be overcome...