Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet sector of Berlin there is still much rubble; the 1.5 million East Berliners have a lower standard of living and walk among propaganda posters which repeat monotonously: Down with NATO, Adenauer is a pawn of fascist generals, and the like. The combined British, French, and U.S. half of the city enjoys more wealth and a large degree of municipal self-government. In addition, the Federal Republic has moved many of its offices from Bonn to West Berlin to demonstrate its connection with the city...
...both he expressed concern that the six-nation European Common Market might shut out Canadian farm products; e.g., in 1957, 30% of Canada's exported wheat went to these six countries. He indicated Canada could not agree to De Gaulle's proposed French-British-U.S. NATO triumvirate. After Rome this week, Diefenbaker will head to Pakistan, part of the Commonwealth he hopes to galvanize...
Time for a Raise. Ely's boss, General Charles de Gaulle, posed a problem to NATO too. Endlessly jealous of French prestige, De Gaulle more than a month ago sent off private letters to Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Their contents remain secret, but their gist was leaked out: France should be admitted to equal partnership with Britain and the U.S. in a kind of informal three-power NATO dictatorate in world affairs. "Unacceptable." cried Bonn. "Wounds the feelings and the rights of Italy." complained Premier Amintore Fanfani. The French Foreign Office blandly assured...
GREECE REJECTS CYPRUS TALKS, Said the headlines. All of NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak's tireless efforts (TIME, Nov. 3) to gather a conference to settle the three-year-old Cyprus dispute between Britain, Greece and Turkey fell apart last week. The Greek government, which dares not show itself more conciliatory than Cyprus' bearded Archbishop Makarios, said...
...British, delighted to put the blame squarely on Athens, leaked a blizzard of inspired "inside information" to prove that all the NATO powers, and Spaak himself, were fed up with the Greeks...