Word: nato
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...colleagues, "didn't know what the hell to do with him. He was too young to be Chief of Staff." The solution, finally arrived at in 1950, was to name him commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. Six months later, Norstad took on his first NATO assignment : Commander, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe. Last year, after serving as air deputy to SACEUR's Matthew Ridgway and Alfred Gruenther, he succeeded Gruenther as boss of SHAPE...
...This meeting is an event of the first order of magnitude," says Norstad. "It may be compared only with the establishment of NATO and the outbreak of the Korean war. It's all very well to make statements of principle, but now we must make a statement of the things we are doing, tangible things...
...First Step. Shaken by Eisenhower's most recent illness, worried by signs of uncertainty and discord among the members, doomsayers were already talking glumly of Paris as a great opportunity lost. In fact, the 15 chiefs of government who will gather round the table in NATO's conference hall next week are most unlikely to create any new political institutions that would set NATO on the road to supranational power. But the summit conference will almost certainly produce a pledge of closer political collaboration; if meticulously honored, it could create a state of mind that would rule...
...Lauris Norstad has observed: "I get my formal directives on a piece of paper which I receive from the NATO Council. But my real directive is the confidence that nations place in this agency." If the Paris meeting can restore and reinvigorate that confidence, the meeting will be well held...
While most European nations complain that their economies will not support greater military expenditures and talk of reductions, the most significant economic fact about Western Europe is the explosive postwar expansion of its industrial output. By 1956 industrial production of NATO's Western European members showed the following increases over prewar (1937-38) levels...