Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third and most decisive of these victories, foreshadowed at the recent NATO session in Paris, became official last week when the U.S., Britain and France, in different but "convergent" notes, rejected Khrushchev's proposals for all occupying nations to withdraw from a "free Berlin," which would then be isolated no miles inside the Iron Curtain. The obligation to protect the freedom of more than 2,000,000 West Berliners, the notes said, "is a right and responsibility solemnly accepted by the three Western powers." But, they added, if Khrushchev will abandon the "menace" of his six-month timetable...
...Washington saw it, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was backed into an embarrassing corner by the U.S.-NATO refusal to give up war-won rights to stay in West, Berlin. But he was not yet ready to give up the diplomatic battle. His potshots of the week...
Khrushchev's new shots notwithstanding, U.S. officials went on preparing new proposals for Germany that were based on proven and continuing firmness. Principal element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
NOVEMBER: BERLIN. When the Kremlin's Khrushchev put out his provocative plan to turn prosperous, private-enterprise West Berlin into a "free city" demilitarized and disengaged from the cold war, the NATO governments proclaimed their intent to hold fast at Berlin. West Berliners themselves rejected Khrushchev's "free-city" plan by voting 98.1% to 1.9% against the Communist candidates in city elections. Score at halftime: West leading in defense of a key position deep in Communism's territory...
...Needed Lift. At year's end the U.S. had many more reasons for hope and confidence than at year's beginning under Sputnik's beep-beep. The U.S. was solid on holding Berlin, unifying Germany by free elections, strengthening NATO, defending Formosa and Quemoy, adding to deterrent power, pressing and pressing again the need for more trade and aid. The strong foundation: the health of the U.S. economy and way of life as evidenced in 1958 by recovery from recession at home (confounding a basic Marxist proposition) and by the popularity overseas of U.S. staples that ranged...