Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO's Lauris Norstad...
...Paris' Palais de Chaillot and around the world went the reassuring picture of an American leader at work. While there were wide differences in interpretation of what the NATO conference was doing and what it did, there was general agreement that Dwight Eisenhower had turned out to be, in both symbol and deed, the key man of the conference. To all appearances he had once more fought his way back to good health, was once more determined to push to the limit his great talents for leadership. He was, in short, the Ike that Europe remembered...
...denounces Soviet rejection of Western disarmament proposals, and emphasizes that NATO's fundamental purpose is to serve as a deterrent...
...argues against any new NATO political institutions, but declares that the "habit" of political consultation among NATO members must be built up over the years...
Greek Cypriots still refuse to recognize any spokesman except Makarios, and most well informed Britons concede privately that his return sooner or later is inevitable. A solution Britain would consider: independence for Cyprus, retention of NATO bases on the island, but no merger with Greece. One of the biggest sticking points is Turkey's increasingly stubborn insistence on partition or the status quo as the only ways to safeguard Cyprus' outnumbered Turkish community. But if good will and determination could find a way, Sir Hugh Foot seemed the man to find...