Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need to fight as a last resort against the loss of their irreplaceable strategic and material stake in the Middle East. As NATO met last week in Paris to contemplate the crisis that enfolds it by enfolding its two major European partners, Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, a peace-loving if fiery statesman, said roundly that in his view the British and French had no alternative to risking force if they wished to safeguard their vital interests...
...decided to consolidate their hold on Cyprus at all costs, to defend their threatened position in the Middle East oil zone. This ugly situation jeopardizes NATO, which seeks new tasks for itself; yet NATO has sought to avoid trouble by ignoring it. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak has proposed that NATO step in to supervise Cyprus' future self-determination, and at the same time see that the Greeks (who would undoubtedly win) give protective guarantees to the island's 20% Turk minority. Britain's needs in Cyprus would be amply served by a long...
...Brussels, some 500 delegates to the Assembly of World Brotherhood sat through five days of speeches without either a hint of dispute or a healthy round of applause. Few speakers succeeded in rising above the grimly mirthless atmosphere of the occasion. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, famed as an extemporaneous orator, armed himself with a copy of an old speech, liberally quoted himself, explained that he couldn't express his sentiments any better than he did five years...
Britain's Harold Macmillan added: "The tensions between East and West have seemed unending. But recently there has been a lifting of the cloud . . ." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was carried away: "Let us make no attempt to explain or even to understand all the whys and wherefores; let us merely note, but note with joy, that throughout the world there is at least a desire to talk...
...however, did not agree with Spaak that the "whys and wherefores" of Soviet relaxation were unimportant. The U.S. noted soberly that Molotov's conciliation was born of Soviet weakness and Western pressure. This was the gist of Dulles' speech at San Francisco (see below), and the key to the frame of mind that President Eisenhower would carry to the Parley at the Summit. The U.S. waited to be shown what tangible results could be distilled from the new optimism at San Francisco...