Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important, there is good reason for optimism about the state of the world. Despite the French-instigated tremors within NATO, Europe not only is more stable than at any time since World War II but is also full of political movement hinting at political innovations to come. In Asia, nine free countries met at Seoul and formed a loose but friendly association that would have been impossible a year...
Passive Partnership. In the hope that De Gaulle did not really intend to desert NATO, the Allies refrained from forcing a showdown. After all, from a purely military point of view, even a passive partnership was preferable to French neutrality-which would cut the Western alliance in two, isolate each of its three Mediterranean members from West Germany, Britain, Benelux and Scandinavia...
...upon Brussels as the new military headquarters-despite the objection of a minority of middle-class Belgians that the influx of 2,600 SHAPE staffers would drive up rents in their capital city. More difficult was the question of whether France intended to remain as an active partner in NATO, and De Gaulle's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville proved difficult to pin down. France would be happy to allow NATO's political council to remain in Paris, he said, and would continue its membership in the organization. But whether the 72,000 French troops now stationed...
After long debate, the conference vetoed a Danish proposal to use NATO as a springboard for an East-West conference on basic issues that divide Europe. Not that the ministers were opposed to a settlement: they encouraged all "initiatives" of any NATO nation to improve East-West relationships. At the same time, however, even Couve de Murville agreed with Secretary of State Rusk that it is still too early for outright accommodation between the two opposing blocs. There is an obvious interest in moving toward peace with Russia, said Rusk, but "the main ingredient is our own solidarity...
Lauds Norstad, LL.D., president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. and former NATO commander...