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...CORNELIUS THE CENTURION was established a century ago to serve the military post on Governor's Island. Today...
...airily of "new weapons" (e.g., U.S. atomic artillery) which might reduce the need for men on the ground. But economics is still at the root of the trouble. Forced to guard its solvency by gambling with its safety, Britain is exporting a sizable fraction of its arms production (e.g., Centurion tanks) to earn foreign exchange...
...small, green but growing forces have so far staged. On the north German plain, east of the Rhine, 150,000 British, Dutch, Belgian and Canadian troops were holding off a theoretical mass attack from the east. Britain had contributed three armored divisions, equipped with the 52-ton, Korea-tested Centurion tank. Belgium had one division of obsolescent U.S. Shermans...
...arms makers were less punctual in their deliveries to Canada. The Canadian army announced last week that despite the long-range program to standardize Canadian and U.S. arms, it will equip its 27th Brigade armored squadron in Germany with British-made Centurion tanks. Reason: the U.S. cannot promise delivery on a Canadian order placed last spring for 60 of the U.S. Army's M-47 medium tanks. The British agreed to supply 60 Centurions, standard medium tank of the Royal Armored Corps, in the near future...
...British zone, the 11th Armored showed off its new, low-silhouette Centurion tank. Said Ike, after watching the 50-tonner churning through the mud: "The Centurion looks like a good piece of mechanism. I hope we don't have to use it." Next day, with a French motorcycle escort, Eisenhower drove at a 50-mile-an-hour clip to Coblenz. The French, who do not forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German...