Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After seven bright years as NATO's elder statesman and tireless gadfly, the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, was retiring. One afternoon last week, after a round of farewell parties, doughty Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 70, stepped out of SHAPE'S headquarters building near Paris, marched briskly past cheering troops (including a blue-grey contingent of the Germans he had fought so well in World War II). Then Monty shook hands with his boyish-looking boss, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 51, and drove off. "Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier...
...afternoon session, Admiral Jerauld Wright, USN, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and his staff briefing team explained the mission of NATO and its capacity for preventing aggression...
...NATO Unity Prime Deterrent...
Estimates of NATO strength remained secret for security reasons, although the Admiral admitted that the allied forces were considerably smaller than the Soviet armies. Despite their military strength, however, the Russians have "the patience and the realism" not to launch an attack while they are convinced of swift and united retaliation, Admiral Wright declared. "Our ability to convince them of this is the primary deterrent to aggression," he emphasized...
...NATO chief Paul-Henri Spaak called yesterday for a union of all the forces of the West to win the global struggle with Communism...