Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson, attacking what he called the Republican slogan of "peace, prosperity and progress," tried a Truman-ism for size: "What peace? Our peace seems to consist of a balance of terror in the world." Stevenson was appalled by the world around him. "NATO has never been so weak ... We have no policy in the Middle East." He quoted Eisenhower as saying at the time of his second-term announcement that some of the presidential work "can now be done by my close associates as well as by myself." Said Adlai: "I could not help but think of that little...
...this fall's election, we are better off with Mr. Benson in the Cabinet. But as Americans seeking to restore our farm economy, we would be better off without him." Then Estes fired his wildest carronade at President Eisenhower for General Alfred Gruenther's retirement as NATO commander (see below): "General Gruenther has been disappointed with the fact that in recent years there has been no effort to strengthen the NATO organization ... I think the blame for doing nothing to build up NATO rests with the Administration and the President...
...correspondents to France were in Monaco, goggling at Grace Kelly and her Prince (see PEOPLE), when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council met in Paris last week. On the agenda was a surprise item of high importance: a letter from President Eisenhower to Lord Ismay, NATO secretary-general, asking that General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (TIME, Feb. 6) be released from duty as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe near the end of 1956. Gruenther's retirement from his NATO post and active service in the U.S. Army was assigned to "personal considerations." The council agreed with "great regret," asked...
...late Admiral Forrest Sherman quietly conferred, arrived at agreement on service unification. Norstad became Air Force operations chief in 1947, went to Germany in 1950 as commander in chief of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, was named Al Gruenther's deputy air commander in July, 1953. At NATO Norstad shaped atomic strategy, built up the air base network-communications system-and radar-warning service...
...Arab nationalist leaders. He has a French wife and an admiration for the products of French culture. He conspicuously resists the anti-Western line of Egypt's Nasser, and disdains Nasser's brand of opportunistic neutralism. In fact, he wants Tunisia to become a member of NATO. Then the French base at Bizerte could be converted to a NATO base, manned by French forces not as "imperialists," but as partners within the NATO framework. Says Bourguiba: "There is not, and must never be, any question of where our sympathies...