Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO. Dulles swapped visions and ideas with Canada's visiting Secretary for External Affairs Lester Pearson on their joint crusade to build the 15-nation NATO pact into some form of political community (TIME, April 30 et seq.). "We are only in the first innings," Pearson emphasized. "Our own views," echoed...
Dulles, "are still at a formative and tentative stage." Then Pearson flew to London and Paris to sound out the Europeans...
...some specific reservations about a political NATO, which it plans to take up with its allies later this month when Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson comes to Washington for talks with Dulles. For one thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
...hoped NATO could make such aid more anonymous-and therefore without strings or need of gratitude. The old Big Three (U.S., Britain, France) were a little sensitive about the demand from other NATO nations for more voice in the councils of the mighty. Last week Canada's Pearson, going all out, urged NATO development "to the point where no member would think of taking actions which affected the others in any substantial way, either politically or economically, without prior discussion...
Rather than grapple unpreparedly with the issues raised by Pearson, the NATO ministers quickly approved Dulles' suggestion of a committee, and named Canada's Pearson, Italy's Gaetano Martino, and Norway's Halvard Lange to see what they could think of by next fall...