Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force C-130 that flew the Berlin corridor at 25,000 ft. instead of the usual 10,000 ft. to test Russian reaction had advance clearance from the President. Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, in Washington for the NATO meeting, hit the ceiling when he saw press reports of the C-130 flight, snapped questions at Acting Secretary of State Herter at their next meeting, was calmed down when Herter promised to consult him before it happened again...
...NATO's retaliatory power got vital reinforcement when Italy became the second European nation (the other: Britain) to announce acceptance of U.S. intermediate-range ballistic missiles...
...nation NATO Council, meeting in Washington, turned NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
...Minister Harold Macmillan, as he journeyed from Moscow to Paris to Bonn to Washington last month, trailing anonymous spokesmen who talked about recasting the situation, making a start on troop reductions in Germany, etc. Macmillan, by his record no soft-liner, had nonetheless stirred worries about appeasement among other NATO members...
With that much agreed upon, the Big Four adjourned to tell the rest of the NATO ministers what they had planned...