Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of the intercontinental Atlas, even though only over a 500-mile test range, that was the roar heard 'round the world. Instantly the word was flashed to President Eisenhower at the NATO conference. The message electrified the Senate caucus room where Texas' Lyndon Johnson and his Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee were conducting missile hearings. "That," said Johnson, "is mighty good news...
...when NATO nations reopen disarmament discussions with Russia, the man who represented the U.S. at last summer's talks in London is an odds-on bet not to do it again. Reason: State Department Disarmament Adviser Harold Stassen, who kept the State Department quivering nervously during the 1957 negotiations, continues to disagree on basics with Secretary of State Dulles. Like Adlai Stevenson, Stassen believes the U.S. must make a conference-opening concession, i.e., cessation of nuclear testing for a short period as a demonstration of faith. Dulles is unalterably opposed to that idea and also to Stassen...
...summit meeting reminded the people of the free world that NATO has a kind of strength which the Soviet empire can never have-a strength based upon a common tradition and common aspirations. Dwight Eisenhower, searching for words to put this thought into writing, told the leaders: "The fundamental genius of actions such as this is that we follow certain principles but recognize certain differences which cannot be surmounted completely. But because of our fundamental unity, we either surmount our difficulties or accommodate them...
...NATO nations may, and do, quarrel; in the heat of argument they may cry out that the whole family is worthless. But in the last analysis, they cannot escape the consciousness of the tie that binds them. At Paris, the NATO leaders discovered and articulated the fact that that tie was not merely the urgency of military need. It was the basic community of Western civilization itself...
...afternoon last week, Dwight Eisenhower snapped erect in his seat at the NATO conference table, put on his glasses, and. in firm, clear tones, began to read: "We are in a fast-running current of the great stream of history. Heroic efforts will be needed to steer the world toward true peace. This is a high endeavor. But it is one which the free nations of the world can accomplish." When he had finished, NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned to him with quick, wide smiles of congratulation...