Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue out of everything they could lay a thought on-Ike's golfing, his stance at the Geneva Conference, the Soviet economic offensive, the Middle East, interest rates, the state of business, even the resignation of Eisenhower's old friend, General Alfred Gruenther, as commander of NATO...
...feeling in Iceland that perhaps the recent Soviet moves make this less necessary. But I do not think that it is reflective of anything other than a desire to minimize the presence of foreign troops, insofar as it can safely be done." Still open for discussion at a future NATO meeting: "The question of how safely it can be done." Added Ike: "They are our friends, the Icelanders are, there is no question...
...sounding off as he did, Premier Mollet reflects a Europe-wide mood that is increasingly jeopardizing NATO's purpose. Iceland's Parliament has called for withdrawal of NATO troops from the island on the ground that tensions have eased so much since Geneva. In answer to Mollet, the Bonn government last week sent Paris a bristling note that all but accused the French Premier of adopting the Soviet line. Germans thought they heard in Mollet the dawn echoes of a familiar French dream: an unspoken alliance with Russia against a strong Germany...
...Link Theory. "The trouble," reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, "is that the Geneva Summit meeting killed the fear on which NATO was built." At ceremonies outside Paris last week marking NATO's seventh anniversary, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther put an optimistic face on things, and tried to get abreast of the new trend. As if acknowledging some force to Mollet's charges of exaggerated preoccupation with military matters, Gruenther said: "Because NATO has so grown in stature and in military strength . . . NATO can now move with greater strength into other [social and economic] fields. We at SHAPE...
...length away from Gruenther stood Premier Mollet, solemn in black Homburg. When it came his turn to speak, he seized the occasion to pledge anew his government's dedication to the NATO alliance. "I need not repeat to you," he said, "that France will re-establish at the very earliest possible moment the full strength of her contribution to the common defense on continental soil...