Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European satellite armies and perhaps 3,500,000 in Red China's vast army. The U.S. has reduced its own forces by 600,000 men during the past two years, and now has a force of slightly less than 3,000,000. All told, NATO can muster about 6,000,000 men, giving it a rough parity in Europe, though in Asia the Red Chinese have a huge numerical edge...
...adopting a "new look" she can more easily beguile our European allies into believing Soviet Russia is more sinned against than sinning. She thus can elbow the United States out of the Eastern Hemisphere, dismember NATO, neutralize Western Europe, and put across her fake peace-and-disarmament plan which, once completed, would leave her mistress of the world.. Such is the peril. Fortunately, President Eisenhower sees it quite clearly...
...towards a secure peace is the tendency in the weeks and months to come [to] a great deal of talk about the need to preserve the "Geneva atmosphere" as if it were in a bottle. It can hardly be recalled too often that it is Western unity, of which NATO is the embodiment, that has brought us to the point where a meeting is possible, led the Soviet rulers to talk, and listen, politely to men for whom they formerly had nothing but abuse...
...been haunted by development troubles but now that it is going into squadron service, the British feel they have a modern fighter that can hold its own with the latest Soviet MIGs. The Sabres, which are fast becoming obsolete in U.S. terms, will be turned over to other NATO allies...
...final "I-dotting and T-crossing," said one of them, was done on the shores of Lake Geneva, with two Eisenhower military colleagues: NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. General Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chairman of the J.C.S., Admiral Arthur Radford...