Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower announced that he will definitely attend the December meeting in Paris of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Thus he hopes to dramatize the decision made in his recent Washington conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to weld NATO into a new unity, not just of arms and armies, but of all Western moral and material resources. One reservation in Washington's planning: the fear that too much emphasis on a Washington-London axis might distract the sessions from their urgent, NATO-wide purpose...
Only the day before, the Syrians had been working hard on their contrived crisis. The Damascus press reported six Turkish violations of Syrian territory in 48 hours. The Foreign Ministry sent notes to the NATO powers warning that NATO maneuvers scheduled for late in the week might be used as an excuse for Turkey to attack. The government announced that the next week would be "Fortification Week," devoted to building trenches and earthworks for last-ditch defenses. Radio Moscow chimed in: "The situation is very serious. Turkey is preparing to attack...
...Pretense. But Russia kept the drums of war rolling. Pointedly, the Kremlin named Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, "the hero of Stalingrad" and former Red viceroy of Poland, to command Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, and announced that "atomic maneuvers" had been conducted. (The West retaliated with an announcement that NATO had decided to hold land, sea and air exercises on Turkey's "southwestern coast," i.e., in the direction of Syria, beginning this week...
...Khrushchev rattled his rockets outside their borders, the people of Turkey went calmly and resolutely to the polls this week to choose a new Parliament on wholly domestic issues. The reason for this sturdy indifference was simple: all Turks agree that in foreign affairs, the country stands foursquare with NATO and the West...
...free." But Turkey's President Celal Bayar still growled that Turkey will never let an island 40 miles off its coast fall into Greek hands. Most hopeful solution: an independent Cyprus within the British Commonwealth, with defense facilities on the island to be British in fact, but NATO's in name...