Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stamp of Finality. With an unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government scheduled to start in Paris in mid-December (see FOREIGN NEWS), Administration officials were busy last week refining U.S. proposals for closer NATO cooperation in armaments, scientific research and development. Since outlines of the Administration's approach were set before Ike's illness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles & Co. can work U.S. plans for the meeting into nearly finished form without consulting the President. But the stamp of finality must be put upon the plans by the President himself. And after the advance paper work...
...technical difficulties," said the Army's inscrutable announcement. As Defense Secretary Neil McElroy admitted, neither Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Thor nor Redstone Arsenal's Jupiter (future manufacturer: Chrysler Corp.) is "a thoroughly proved missile," but the urgent need for IRBMs to arm both the U.S. and NATO makes it desirable to go ahead with production of both missiles without waiting months for additional tests to show which has the performance edge...
...over Europe, the emotional impact of Ike's cerebral occlusion was shattering. Eisenhower, hope of the West, the man to whom all were looking to meet and match the Sputnik challenge, had been struck down. In Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give...
...France, the thought of a U.S. delegation headed by the Vice President aroused active hostility. ("He is not one of us," complained a French official. "He doesn't know France, doesn't speak French, probably doesn't even drink wine."*) Even in NATO capitals where there is growing acceptance of Nixon's ability, it was an article of faith that a summit conference without Ike would lose much of its impact. Said a German Foreign Office spokesman: "You cannot delegate prestige...
...above all, Western Europe hoped that the summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...