Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further factor cited was belief that a summit conference offers the most dramatic means of impressing on Khrushchev the NATO resolve that West Berlin stays free despite Soviet threats to neutralize it and turn over control of its traffic with the West to Communist East Germany his talks with Khrushchev...
...react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting, no matter if everyone else gave up? Would he be pardoned by the British, sit down with them as Makarios' Defense Minister, and regale NATO councils with advice on how to wage guerrilla war? What would happen to the island's strained economy if most of the British and their families pulled...
...British Commonwealth, or just part of the sterling bloc? Would Britain have full sovereignty over its Cyprus bases-including the right to launch military action from Cyprus without the consent of the Cypriot government? At stake was whether the British could use the base not only for NATO purposes but as a springboard in Middle East trouble spots, such as Kuwait and Oman, as Britain used it for Suez and Jordan. What would be the citizenship status of the thousands of Greek Cypriots now living in the United Kingdom on British passports, of Cypriot Turks resident in Turkey...
...Englishmen, the jewel seemed to be becoming as jinxed as the Hope diamond. Its loss seemed a small price to pay for peace in Cyprus, for the saving of lives of British Tommies, for the renewal of Britain's traditional friendship with Greece and the re-establishment of NATO unity...
...might wake up among those Egyptian fleshpots which symbolize the American way of life? We in the West have been struggling for many a year with the powers and demons that hover over the land of the 'economic miracle' [ meaning West Germany], this land which thoughtlessly joined NATO and proceeded to rearm . . . Pray for us as we pray...