Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threats that this could bring their extinction; they also had agreed to miss no chance for practical discussion of practical roads to peace. They had worked no miracles, but none had been expected; their mood as they left Paris was well described by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, secretary general of NATO, as one of "cool determination" rather than "poorly founded exaltation." Along with other NATO leaders who sat around the table, Secretary General Spaak could find little resemblance between what went on in the conference room and what was shouted in the headlines of dispute and disintegration that...
...President Eisenhower noted in his speech of several weeks ago, our enemies already know these "secrets," and in some cases have improved on them. The United States is only depriving itself of possible further advances by its allies by denying them access to nuclear information. As NATO Secretary-General Spaak said last Wednesday, "For the prestige of the European countries it is not indispensable to reinvent what the United States has already discovered, and the security of the United States will not be imperilled if it makes known to its friends what its enemies already know...
...Glory of Freedom. It was into this atmosphere that NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak stepped one afternoon with a blunt suggestion: As a next step, why shouldn't Ike and Macmillan both attend the NATO conference in Paris next December? Both probably will...
Heady Promise. While Ludwig Erhard dreamed of his home-grown Sherman Act, other Europeans had been dreaming even headier dreams. Spurred on by France's Jean Monnet and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, six Western European nations (France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) early this year finished drawing up treaties to establish both a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (TIME, March 4). The first of these promised to create within 15 years a single West European market, comparable in size to the continent-wide U.S. market, with free trade within...
...possession of nuclear arms, Western Europe could not provide an adequate deterrent force. Recognizing this fact, the emphasis in recent years has been to transform NATO into more of an economic and political, rather than a military organization. The replacement of Lord Ismay, a military leader, with Dr. Spaak, a political figure, as Secretary General underscores this shift...