Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond men, missiles, nuclear weapons and foreign aid, what the U.S. has to offer the non-Communist world-and what the non-Communist world asks of the U.S.-is leadership based on strength. It was to meet this need for leadership that the President flew to the NATO conference in Paris last week at the risk of health and thus of his leadership in the longer range. But even as the President waved to cheering crowds from his open car in winter .weather, a symbol of past victories and present challenges, present and future problems stretched...
...NATO powers are in Paris to meet one logical, overriding need: to preserve the deterrent military-political power that has kept the cold war cold, built a military foundation for West European prosperity. The new threat: Sputnik and the Soviet experimental intercontinental ballistic missile. The new military response: deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles in closeup NATO bases around the Russian heartland...
...Soviet .Union's Marshal Bulganin fired off his 15-page let's-be-reasonable letters to the NATO leaders last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) to meet another logical, overriding need: to head off any new NATO sense of urgency, stall the new IRBM, and sow new uncertainties among NATO nations. But one of the Kremlin's greatest current assets in its campaign was not of the Kremlin's fabrication. It was the re-emergence of the free world's own "soft line," dimmed after Hungary, dimmed again after the Soviets walked out on last summer...
...continued division of Europe into heavily armed NATO and Communist sectors, said Kennan in the Reith Lectures on the BBC in London, will eventually make war inevitable. "I am not particularly concerned to learn whether our Soviet friends could, if they wished, destroy us. seven times over or only four times; nor do I think that the answer to this danger lies in the indefinite multiplication of our own present ability to do fearful injury to them. Our problem is no longer to prevent people from acquiring the ability to destroy us; it is too late for that. Our problem...
...weapons are expected to begin moving to NATO nations within a year or 18 months. Base sites will be negotiated. This leaves such reluctant nations as Norway and Denmark free to refuse the missiles...