Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well prove to be one of the most historic events in the post-War history of the Western alliance. The summit meeting and the terse communiques that emerged from it take on their potential significance because the agreements reached--on the substantive issues of pooling scientific research and strengthening NATO's policy making functions--could represent a total revision in Western patterns of response to Soviet challenges...
...share in U.S. nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth II, he gave in his toast a key to a top Macmillan agenda item: "We have the power. The only thing to do is to put it together. Our scientists must work together. NATO should not be thought of merely...
...IRBM to go into assembly-line production, Wilson set up a nicely balanced committee made up of Air Force Major General Ben Schriever, Army Major General John Medaris and Wilson's special missiles assistant, William Holaday. The problem was urgent. With IRBM production soon to be vital for NATO defense, and with Russia apparently well along in IRBM development, the President and the National Security Council had tagged the IRBM program with top priority. But the problem was also agonizingly tough. The Thor-Jupiter committee started meditating last August, but one of the first decisions announced by Defense Secretary...
...Communists would never have attacked had they been certain that the U.S. was willing to go to war. Last week Secretary of State Dulles used his press conference to hand the Russians as blunt a warning as they are ever likely to get: if they launch any attack on NATO Part ner Turkey, even under the guise of going to the aid of Red-lining Syria, there will be war with...
...gain overall direction of German economic policy. Up to now he has had to work in tandem with balky Finance Minister Schäffer, who has incurred Adenauer's displeasure by holding back rearmament funds and thus delaying Adenauer's plans for stepping up German participation in NATO. Inevitably there is talk that Erhard might be in line to succeed as Chancellor, but his lack of an organized following within the party argues against that now. Says Erhard: "I don't approach that question, but it may one day approach...