Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physics, is that action and reaction are equal and opposite. When Soviet pressure relaxes, so does Western vigilance; when Soviet threats increase, so does Western resistance. Last week Soviet pressure increased portentously in the most sensitive spot of cold war: Berlin. The West's reaction was instantaneous: 15 NATO nations, meeting in Paris, moved off the dead center made by the spirit of Geneva and 1) warned the Russians to keep their hands off West Berlin, 2) resolved unanimously to stop the summer's rot in the Atlantic alliance...
Closing Ranks. Faced with the threat of a new Berlin blockade, the 15 Atlantic allies, meeting in Paris for their sixth annual review of NATO policies, reacted by closing ranks. West Germany, NATO's newest member, wanted NATO support for its refusal to deal with East Germany and won a unanimous affirmation: "The council . . . considers the Federal Republic as the only German government freely and legitimately constituted and therefore entitled to speak for Germany...
Weakest Link. Examining their defense posture in the light of the new Russian challenge, the ministers reached a dismaying conclusion: a summer of relaxation has robbed NATO of much strength...
Theoretically, NATO maintains 48 divisions (v. Russia's 175). Actually, it can presently rely on only ten of them, of which five are U.S., four British. France has depleted its four divisions on the Rhine to crush the spreading revolt in North Africa. Britain is reducing its army by 100,000 men; Belgium is disbanding one of its three active divisions; four of the five Dutch divisions are mere skeletons. Denmark's contribution in soldiers is practically negligible, since its 14-month conscription period is too short to train a soldier properly...
Ever since his return last month from a visit to the Soviet Union, Pearson has been calling for "a searching reexamination" of NATO policy. Soviet Leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin apparently convinced him of the Russians' determination never to allow the unification of Germany as long as West Germany stays in the alliance. Mike Pearson, whose neutralist views have led some critics to call him a "Nehru in a Homburg," has hinted that he now leans toward the idea of releasing West Germany from NATO in the hope that the Russians would then free the entire country. The West Germans...