Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat Adlai Stevenson's brief trip through the Republican State Department was marked with good intentions on both sides. But the final outcome, whoever was at fault, could hardly contribute to the success of the NATO conference. No sooner had Stevenson issued his refusal than NATO observers in Europe, figuring he was trying to avoid again being associated with failure, began reading into it a sign that U.S. expectations for the Paris sessions were gloomy...
...Italian plan would not replace the Eisenhower Doctrine's standing offer of help against Communist aggression in the Middle East, but would supplement the doctrine's deterrence with "positive" peacetime aid. By including all O.E.E.C. countries-four of them (Austria, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland) not members of NATO-the plan would avoid identification with NATO or with the Baghdad Pact, both primarily military alliances and both widely disliked in the Middle East...
Without quite rejecting the Italian proposal outright, the State Department raised a couple of negative-thinking objections: 1) the Middle East would look upon the fund as an extension of NATO in spite of everything, 2) European countries would be repaying Marshall Plan loans in their own currencies, so the proposed fund would have no dollars; accordingly the Middle East countries would probably use the loans to buy goods and services from Europe, not from...
Next week, in the drafty, shabby-modern building in Paris that is NATO headquarters, the leaders of 15 nations will gather at the call of President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan to examine their alliance and to consider its posture in the face of the gravest threat it has ever confronted. Not since Versailles will so many heads of Western governments have gathered in such portentous conclave...
...prime task of next week's summit conference is to overcome this unhappy blend of fear, cynicism and narrow self-interest and to give new vitality and strength to the NATO alliance. No one could plot this new course except statesmen and diplomats. But the man who knows most about the terrain ahead and who must lead NATO along the course the summiteers lay down is a lean, greying figure in U.S. Air Force blue. More than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties...