Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation NATO Council, meeting in Washington, turned NATO's tenth anniversary into a resounding statement of support for a policy of no backdown on Berlin, no disengagement in Central Europe-"no surrender by stages," one NATO minister put it. "Not one handful of NATO earth has been lost," said NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad in Paris. "Keep...
Much of the original fog of concession talk had in fact swirled up behind Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, as he journeyed from Moscow to Paris to Bonn to Washington last month, trailing anonymous spokesmen who talked about recasting the situation, making a start on troop reductions in Germany, etc. Macmillan, by his record no soft-liner, had nonetheless stirred worries about appeasement among other NATO members...
Something about Washington divests diplomats of their aura of glamor. The sense of international drama that runs through secret meetings in ancient buildings in London's Whitehall, or on Paris' Quai d'Orsay, is lost in the State Department's Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
...Washington did little for ceremony as the West's Big Four foreign ministers gathered last week in Room 5106 to talk about the May 11 foreign ministers' conference with the U.S.S.R., the city at least provided a down-to-earth setting for some down-to-earth discussion...
...fine print of the epochal NATO Treaty signed by twelve nations in Washington in 1949, was the provision that any NATO member could come back in ten years to suggest changes in the treaty structure. Last week, as the NATO Council got together in conference rooms and on the flag-banked platform of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, nobody suggested that a single comma of the original treaty ought to be changed...