Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department calendars one date-December 16-was looming up with the speed of light. On that day Dwight Eisenhower is scheduled to be in Paris for the unprecedented meeting of NATO chiefs of government, an outgrowth of the ringing call for NATO "interdependence" in defense and scientific research, issued by the President and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at their meeting last month in Washington. Yet every passing day seemed to bring more complications than solutions; last week State Department technicians were putting in 14-hour days, and Secretary John Foster Dulles' week was a blur...
High on the list of the U.S.'s Paris aims is a start toward the far-reaching decision to supply NATO partners with intermediate-range ballistic missiles as soon as the U.S. has any to deliver (TIME, Nov. 25). That enormous undertaking is complicated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which bars the U.S. from turning over nuclear arms to foreign nations in peacetime. At his press conference last week, Dulles confirmed that by present law the U.S. would have to keep nuclear warheads for NATO missiles under its own "technical custody." But the U.S. could deliver missiles...
...week's end another NATO foreign minister, West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, arrived in Washington fresh from Rome to discuss plans for the NATO meeting. With him he brought a German-Italian proposal that NATO members commit themselves to consultation with the other allies before carrying out any major policy decision. Since this seemed to imply a veto power over any U.S. decision to retaliate instantly if attacked, Dulles turned it down, pointed out that the U.S. cannot unconditionally commit itself to advance consultation, thereby curbing presidential power to act quickly in a crisis...
...hour of the NATO summit conference approached, the statesmen and diplomats of the West scurried about like ants. Danish Premier Hans Christian Hansen flew into Bonn. German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano conferred in Rome before flying to Washington, hot on the heels of French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau. In London Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was loading his briefcase for a quick trip to Paris...
Fact is there is far from complete agreement on just what the summit leaders conference should accomplish, or how NATO should be changed. West Germany and Italy want each country to confer with its NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country...