Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the Western allies, concerned with mortising Western Germany into the NATO ramparts, had given little if any thought to the southern end of those ramparts. Then, suddenly, the whole Middle East seemed in jeopardy...
...maintained between Egypt and Israel. It involved a possible intrusion of serious Communist influence into a part of the world dominated long, if unsurely, by the West. There was supposed to be a second line of defense against such an occurrence-the partnership of Turkey and Greece within the NATO alliance. But by last week, that partnership was itself in danger of disintegration. Far from acting like NATO allies, the Greeks and Turks were bitterly at odds over Cyprus. Turkey, whose 440,000-man army is the West's strongest bulwark in the area, was so badly in debt...
...Intervened. Secretary of State Dulles, who already had sent a note to Turkey expressing "deep concern" over the riots, dispatched his stern appeal to the two NATO allies. "I believe that the unity of the North Atlantic community, which is the basis of our common security, must be restored," said he. The Greeks exploded at the absence of any words of sympathy for the victims of the Turkish riots. "Mr. Dulles placed criminals and victims on the same level," cried Athens' newspaper, Vima, with considerable justice...
...voting down Greece's request for a full U.N. debate of the Cyprus dispute. The U.S. view was that an exposure of the matter to the many tongues of the U.N. would simply make matters worse; the Greek view was that this was treachery. "Greece must leave NATO," cried the respectable right-wing daily, Ethnos. "Greece cannot remain inside this jungle of crooks and black mailers." Opponents of the government, weak and indecisive because of the illness of its chief, Old Soldier Alexander Papagos, joined in the anti-NATO talk...
...Cabinet went so far as to summon the army's Chief of Staff to brief it on the consequences of quitting NATO-only to arrive at the obvious decision that Greece, for all its anger, would hurt itself most by giving up its only defense against Communism...