Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Sickness. Next day, as if determined to convince the newsmen that their fears were groundless, Ike took on a jampacked schedule. In the morning he drove out to suburban Rocquencourt to visit SHAPE-the NATO military headquarters which he established in 1951. Ignoring the freezing wind, Ike stood at salute through the Marseillaise and The Star-Spangled Banner, then set off on a tour of the headquarters with U.S. General Lauris Norstad. the man who now holds his old job as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). After a quick look at the office that he left...
Just how crucial Ike's health was to NATO morale was demonstrated again that evening. Secretary Dulles had advised him that the evening session would be a routine drafting session, which most heads of government would probably skip, and Dulles suggested Ike could skip it too. But when the news reached the Palais de Chaillot that Ike was not coming, consternation swept the meeting. Quickly, Dulles put in a call to the U.S. residency, told Ike that the other heads of government were there, and that there was a feeling of deep concern. Without more ado, Ike clapped...
...away "very happy-very happy indeed" over what he interpreted as assurances that the Baghdad Pact countries, including Turkey, could count on increased military and economic assistance from the U.S. But neither in the talks with Ike nor in their subsequent luncheon with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and NATO's Paul-Henri Spaak did Menderes and Karamanlis come to grips with the Cyprus quarrel that has set their countries at daggers drawn, gravely damaged NATO's potential effectiveness in the eastern Mediterranean...
...over Europe such enthusiasm as there was for what the NATO Prime Ministers had wrought focused not on the missile-base plan but on the possibility of new talks with Russia. In Britain even the Times of London, voice of the established order, endorsed the idea of negotiations to determine "whether there cannot be some limited agreement affecting the type of arms to be stationed in Central Europe," and the conservative Economist followed suit...
There were specific disappointments. French nationalists complained that the NATO leaders had not given France the ringing endorsement it sought for its Algerian policies. In the Arab nations of the Middle East there was widespread wrath at Turkey's Adnan Menderes. "The Turk will never understand the Arab," complained a Lebanese daily, outraged because Menderes had not pushed at Paris for the current Arab dream of forcing Israel back inside the restricted borders granted it by the U.N. in 1947. Fearful of just such a maneuver, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion tried to counter by sending...