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...sense, the familiar discussion of military preparedness was overshadowed by NATO's "general recognition," as Secretary-General Dirk Stikker summed it up, "of a change in the atmosphere of world affairs." British Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler echoed a common view that in the wake of the Kremlin's retreat in the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets "have renounced the policy of high risks in dealing with the West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia...
Under U.S. urging, Secretary-General Dirk Stikker (ailing and probably due for early retirement) is carrying out sweeping studies to reassess NATO force levels and basic strategy. The French have been working against the "Stikker studies." Clinging to their own massive retaliation theory, which holds that any aggression in Europe must turn into a nuclear war, De Gaulle's men sneer at Washington's concept of "balanced" conventional-and-nuclear forces to provide a "flexible response" to Red moves...
...everyone's first choice when the new job of NATO secretary general was created at Lisbon (TIME, March 3). But Sir Oliver said no. The job was next offered to Canada's External Affairs Secretary Lester ("Mike") Pearson, and then to The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker. Their governments refused to spare them...
Against this background last week Dutch and Indonesian representatives met in The Hague for the parley that would determine Irian's destiny. Soekarno's men, led by Foreign Minister Mohamed Rum, demanded control within six months. Led by Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker, The Netherlands' men testily replied that they could not negotiate on the basis of such a proposal. They argued, in effect, that they were more capable and responsible colonial administrators than the untried Indonesians, and that West New Guinea's primitive inhabitants needed their benevolent aid. "Whoever calls this task of civilization colonialism...
...Paul van Zeeland, Belgium; Lester Pearson, Canada; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Dirk U. Stikker, The Netherlands; Jose Caeiro da Matta, Portugal; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Thor Thors, Iceland...