Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked successfully to get the word "justice" ranked with "peace" in the U.N. Charter. In the next five years President Truman sent him to nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated the Japanese Peace Treaty in a brilliant, yearlong, 125,000-mile performance in which he applied the lessons he had learned at Versailles. "If you use the lash," he said, "if you constrict Japanese economic opportunity, you will create a peace that can only lead to bitter animosity...
Stung, Christian Herter soon evened the score. Coldly noting that Gromyko "not only today but on other occasions" had accused NATO and West Germany of planning aggressive war, Herter reminded the conference that "the tensions that have required the Western powers through ordinary prudence to protect themselves" have been "tensions created -and created in many cases deliberately -by the Soviet government." Many more such Soviet charges, he warned, would mean that "our desire to negotiate seriously would be nullified very rapidly...
...goes well. He will come as arranged." Last week, in publicly charging Bertele (real name: Herman Boisselle), his wife Felicie. and Dopierala with collecting and transmitting secret military information "to an Eastern state," the D.S.T. made it clear that they had tripped up a Communist spy ring operating in NATO's capital...
...Canada about to bow out as a full partner in manning NATO's European shield? Until a few months ago, any such notion was inconceivable. Yet in the letdown after Ottawa's cancellation of the all-Canadian Avro Arrow jet interceptor -which the government used as the occasion to write Canada off as a military air power (TIME, March 2)-some members of the Conservative government want to cut back Canada's contribution to NATO. Last week NATO's General Lauris Norstad spent 2¼ hours before Canada's Cabinet in worried entreaty for renewed...
...allowed on German soil. This plan should certainly appeal to the West: militarily, Germany would be willing and able to defend itself; politically and economically, the extremely hopeful post-war developments of the Franco-German rapprochement and the European Common Market could be preserved; Germany, legally forbidden to enter NATO, would be none-the less committed in principle to the Western point-of-view...