Word: nato
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...walkout, however, has far wider repercussions, whether or not the French carry out their threat not to return. France's closest political and military ties have always been with the West and NATO. The worldwide prestige of the NATO bloc is the responsibility of each member of the organization. By quitting the Assembly, the French delegation may have done irreparable damage to the West's prestige...
More plausible was another doubt that turned around Adenauer's failure to get any definite commitment on the reunification of his country. But the possibilities there were strictly limited. The Russians could have agreed to reunification, provided that the Germans agreed to get out of NATO. This was the hidden bait in the Kremlin's invitation to Adenauer. The Russians knew how powerful in German public opinion is the drive to reunite their country. Any German political leader less staunch than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance...
...been forced to make in writing the one commitment the Russians had insisted on from the opening moment -diplomatic relations-and he had not budged the Russians toward reunification on his terms. "It is certainly not in the Soviet Union's interest to have a reunified Germany in NATO," Khrushchev said bluntly. Even the language of the communiqué emphasized the existence of two Germanys, and the Soviet line that reunification of the two is principally "a national problem of the German people," not something for the Western powers to meddle in. In return, Adenauer had got an oral...
...Provocation. In Paris, NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay called an unprecedented meeting of the NATO Council. Never before had NATO met to make peace between its own members. At the meeting, Turkish representative Mehmet Ali Tiney presented his government's apologies for the riots, but added: "Of course, there was a certain provocation...
...flare-up of Greco-Turkish tension was a reminder of the days when thousands upon thousands of Greeks and Turks lost their lives in bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...