Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round table. There or elsewhere the West would get its chance to talk "new solutions." Best guideline: stick to the policy that has already been strikingly successful by 1) prodding the Russians once more to reunification of Germany by free elections, with free choice whether or not to join NATO; 2) insisting that they keep their pledged word on the World War II agreements, which set up Berlin under four-power auspices and turned the city into a striking outpost of prosperity, hope and defiance only because the Communists wrapped their drab, unsmiling empire around...
Downgrading the IRBM. With NATO allies except Britain and Italy showing scant enthusiasm for U.S.-offered intermediate-range missiles, the Pentagon is reappraising the worth of the IRBM, designed for launching from overseas sites, as against the intercontinental missile, designed for launching from U.S. bases. Trend: more reliance on ICBMs, less on IRBMs, which would be of little use in a limited war and would be vulnerable to Russian attacks on overseas bases...
...most interesting aspects of the Cyprus issue (at least for Americans) is the extremely awkward position in which it places the United States. All the governments directly involved are U.S. allies and all are members of NATO. The "backside" of NATO is already beginning to tear apart at the seams because of Cyprus. And it is very much in the United States' interest that the matter be settled fast--before NATO is further weakened, and before we are forced to make a clear-cut choice between allies...
...based on "expedients," popular disillusionment with America is mounting. Three years ago there was no anti-Americanism in Greece; now there is a good deal. Eventually this kind of feeling may become strong enough to topple the pro-Western government there, and to propel Greece right out of NATO. Even a Communist government is not entirely beyond the bounds of possibility, if the Cyprus controversy becomes sufficiently acrid...
Views. An avid advocate of German unity, but not at any price. Once considered "as Red as a non-Red can get," Brandt has long since tempered his socialism, pays tribute to free enterprise's role in rebuilding West Berlin. Having praised both NATO and German rearmament, he is out of favor with the doctrinaire and neutralist leaders of his party, but since he has the youth and vigor they lack, his admirers think Brandt may yet become Chancellor of Germany...