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General George Catlett Marshall had taken the chairman's seat at the Washington conference of NATO's defense ministers with a sense of urgency. In his briefcase was a comprehensive plan for the defense of Western Europe. A previous meeting of NATO's Military Committee had agreed on the armed forces each country would contribute and on a supreme command (TIME, Nov. 6). Equally essential in the American plan was a German contribution; Marshall wanted about ten West German divisions spread through the NATO force, in the ratio of one German to every six or seven divisions...
...looked feeble, and gossip spread that he couldn't handle his work. His aides knew better: the spare, grey-thatched, droop-mustached old man was a stern and shrewd martinet, who could lay about him with a shaking crooked finger and a devastating logic. George Catlett Marshall, who inspired some of the same kind of respect, jumped when Stimson beckoned...
...held Korean capital of Seoul-a strike which might well shorten the Korean war by months (see WAR IN ASIA). Washington, also, had its Page One reports of a change for the better. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was fired by an irate President, and General of the Army George Catlett Marshall came out of retirement to succeed...
Twice before, in deep predicament, Harry Truman had gone looking for a man of honesty, dignity and prestige. Both times he turned in the same direction. Last week the rays of Mr. Truman's lamp fell once again on the homely, sorrowful, willing face of General George Catlett Marshall...
...Michigan's Huron Mountain Club, where they have been reading, picnicking and canoeing for the last month, Mr. & Mrs. George Catlett Marshall posed for one of the few informal pictures taken of them (see cut) since the old warrior stepped down as Secretary of State in January...