Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courageous struggle, after three major illnesses, to climb not merely back to normalcy but to the surpassing heights required by the new day. Yet the magic seemed gone from the old reassurances, the rallying of forces, the bipartisan gathering of legislative leaders, the hurry-up new plans for NATO. These may once have been answers; now they were only parts of answers...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles first presented the U.S. plans for the NATO conference in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS), already pretty well spelled out in the newspapers. From NATO, discussion turned to the rest of the program...
...recorded history, a U.S. President asked a defeated rival to attend an international summit council: in a ten-minute White House meeting last week, Dwight Eisenhower told Adlai Stevenson he would be "very happy" to have Stevenson accompany the U.S. delegation to next week's heads-of-government NATO meeting in Paris. Leaving the White House, Stevenson first said he was not really sure he had been invited, then promised to decide within a week or ten days, that afternoon announced that he would not go "unless there are compelling developments...
...ended a chapter in high politics that began a month before, when Stevenson volunteered to go to Europe in advance of the Paris conference to help sell his friends overseas on the plans to strengthen NATO. Stevenson later had some second thoughts on the practicality of such a trip, and the idea died. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seized at the opportunity to present a bipartisan U.S. approach to the NATO sessions, asked Stevenson to take on a job as his special adviser (TIME...
...included Stevenson in planning sessions held at Dulles' home, invited Stevenson to prepare "language" for Dulles' speeches in Paris. The State Department was generally pleased at Stevenson's brief performance and believed, as an Assistant Secretary put it, that he had helped "polish up" the total NATO program...