Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thousands of copies of a Ceremonial Hymn to NATO were recently distributed to British schoolchildren with the suggestion that they sing it at prayers...
...Acting Secretary, Herter strained to avoid even the faintest appearance of grasping for his ailing boss's job. He refused, for example, to hold a single press conference. But Herter liked the job, and his friends knew it. After he sat in as the U.S. delegate at the NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Washington (TIME, April 13), he won high praise for his professional polish from some of Europe's top diplomats...
...Developed the NATO collective-defense system from a Europe-first "position of strength" into a world network of alliances, offered U.S. friends U.S. military and economic help against aggression and subversion if they wanted it, gave millions of free men a new sureness, a new basis for hope...
...these factors helped to explain Britain's singular preoccupation last week with the need, and the expectancy, of bringing off fruitful negotiations at the summit. Other NATO partners were prepared to talk at the summit, but - thanks largely to Khrushchev's retreat from his original "either or" ultimatum - were in no mood to yield easily. No longer so fearful that a real ultimatum showdown with Russia was at hand, they felt less need to make a parade of unreal unanimity...
World Congress of Flight (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). A symposium on man's battle to get as far off the ground as he can, conducted by NATO's General Lauris Norstad, Physicist Edward Teller, Test Pilot Scott Crossfield...