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This Year. The Lisbon Conference established 1) a minimum target of 50 divisions (25 ready to fight, 25 in reserve) and 4,000 aircraft by the end of 1952 2) a buildup program to 70 divisions by 1953, to 98 divisions and 10,000 aircraft by 1954. Promised such progress, Dwight D. Eisenhower commented: "Visible and within grasp we have the capability ... of such strength as the Communist world would never dare challenge...
...grasping has proved nettlesome. With 26 divisions* and 3,500 aircraft combat-ready in Western Europe, NATO superficially seems to have hit its 1952 target. Compared with last year's NATO force of 18 active divisions, this is an improvement; compared with the 100 divisions and 7,000 aircraft that Russia has available, it remains dangerously inadequate. More important, the roll call of Allied "reserves" is woefully short. Some 20 reserve divisions exist in embryo, but few would be ready for action within the 30-day mobilization period specified by NATO. Without more reserves, says NATO Supreme Commander General...
Mueller says Schoenhof's, costly books on art are a principal target for thieves. He said one bandit even cleaned out the cash register last Saturday, getting away with $150 in bills...
Treaty Negotiator: More & more, Dulles took part in postwar diplomacy. But he was quick to see and to warn publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost...
Both Pereira and Beveridge were picked up later, as they stopped to watch the first three defendants being herded to a prowl car. Pereira admitted to saying, a propos of a bent-over officer. "What a tempting target that would make...