Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10--Six doctors agreed today that President Eisenhower's "recovery to date is such that it permits him to attend the Paris meeing" of the NATO chiefs of state...
...French atomic-bomb program will cost close to $1 billion (400 billion francs) in the next seven years. In NATO eyes, France could make many more useful contributions to Western defense than by designing and manufacturing a weapon already made by the U.S. and Britain. It is exactly the kind of wasteful enterprise that the projected summit meeting was designed to eliminate or make unnecessary...
Adlai Stevenson will not attend the Paris NATO conference a week from today...
Stevenson in Europe for the NATO meeting would have given some prestige to the American delegation; he is remembered there as a wise and temperate man. Stevenson in Europe would have reassured those Americans who have serious doubts about the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy. And most important, Stevenson in Europe might have introduced some political and economic dimensions for what promises to be a strictly military conference...
Next week's agenda has been announced. The NATO conference will concern itself with Sputnik and missile secrets, with numbers of men and methods of military defense. There will be nothing said about France and Algeria, or Britain and Cyprus, or the U.S. and its China policy. There will be a conspiracy of silence against the urgent economic problems which face the free world--the trade barriers, the need for world markets, aid to neutral nations and underdeveloped countries. The politicians will labor next week under the old delusion that wars are won on battlefields alone...