Office of the Historian

740.5/2–2052: Telegram

The United States Delegation to the Department of State
Lisbon, February 20, 1952.

Secto 25. Public opening session of NAC held National Assembly 3 p.m. today. Greece and Turkey formally welcomed into NATO. Port FonMin Cunha’s welcoming address to NATO guests lamented fact that improved security in East Mediterranean resulting from accession Greece–Turkey not matched in West Mediterranean by inclusion Spain. Secretary made short statement exhorting colleagues to exert utmost efforts to make genuine progress at this mtg and to turn defense plans into actual defense machinery.1

  1. For the text of Acheson’s address, see Department of State Bulletin, Mar. 10, 1952, pp. 370–371. For Acheson’s brief summary account of the meeting, see Acheson, Present at the Creation, p. 622. A photograph of Secretary Acheson addressing the opening session is printed on p. 564.↩