Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his new suggestions for NATO strategy last week, Secretary of State Dulles showed that the Administration feels compelled to alter its foreign policy in the face of caustic foreign and domestic criticism. The new twist, although laudable passes only as a beginning and cannot be interpreted as a major revision of policy. The altered attitude should be extended, enlarged, and made a permanent part of United States foreign outlook...
Dulles intends to "advance NATO from its initial phase into the totality of its meaning." The accent is to shift from a military emphasis to development of the Alliance's economic and political potentialities. Dulles suggests that NATO should assume a shape similar to the Organization of American States, with full economic as well as military cooperation among the member nations. Although Drlles refused to be specific about the nature of NATO's new complexion, he did imply that the Alliance would become a sort of giant trading corporation. It would offer economic assistance, eased trading terms, and extended credit...
This new interpretation of a "regional defense area" is, for the Administration, a much-delayed step in the right direction. It indicates a recognition that armaments are not the primary defense against Communism. The redefinition is a frank if belated acknowledgement that NATO can never hope to attain its original objective, to become a major deterrent force in Europe. It is a confession that NATO cannot be a military garrison which could contain and repel any sustained large-scale Soviet land attack Westward. No European army raised by the NATO countries within the limits of their economic and military capabilities...
...abandoning the chimerical hope of Continental defense and assuming a larger economic role, NATO is to become the free world's distributing agency. Although the U.S. will continue to foot ninety percent of the bill, NATO will now, nominally if not actually, be the benefactor...
...unilateral type of Point-Four or Marshall Plan aid. As such, it will be more palatable to the recipients of the aid. It contributes to that spirit of willing cooperation and mutual self-help between non-Soviet nations which is vital to free-world cohesion. In its new role NATO would accent multilateral, inter-regional economic assistance rather than attempt to defend absolutely the indefensible land mass of Western Europe. This should go far to better political and economic relations between the NATO states and other non-Soviet nations...