Word: gruenther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaigners tried to make an issue out of everything they could lay a thought on-Ike's golfing, his stance at the Geneva Conference, the Soviet economic offensive, the Middle East, interest rates, the state of business, even the resignation of Eisenhower's old friend, General Alfred Gruenther, as commander of NATO...
...advantage. As Democrats seeking to win this fall's election, we are better off with Mr. Benson in the Cabinet. But as Americans seeking to restore our farm economy, we would be better off without him." Then Estes fired his wildest carronade at President Eisenhower for General Alfred Gruenther's retirement as NATO commander (see below): "General Gruenther has been disappointed with the fact that in recent years there has been no effort to strengthen the NATO organization ... I think the blame for doing nothing to build up NATO rests with the Administration and the President...
...Gruenther was vague about his post-retirement future. "I have no personal plans and no ulterior motives," he said. "I have refrained religiously from looking for a job." Then, with a familiar flash, he added: "But I'm certainly not going to grow cauliflowers...
...Monaco, goggling at Grace Kelly and her Prince (see PEOPLE), when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council met in Paris last week. On the agenda was a surprise item of high importance: a letter from President Eisenhower to Lord Ismay, NATO secretary-general, asking that General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther (TIME, Feb. 6) be released from duty as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe near the end of 1956. Gruenther's retirement from his NATO post and active service in the U.S. Army was assigned to "personal considerations." The council agreed with "great regret," asked Ike to name a U.S. successor...
...little group of newsmen who traipsed into the Palais de Chaillot an hour later found Gruenther looking tired and hollow-eyed. But he flatly denied that ill health was ending a brilliant 37-year Army career that took him up to be chief of staff to General Mark Clark in World War II, to be SHAPE chief of staff under Eisenhower in 1951 (and under Ike's successor, Matt Ridgway), to be Supreme Allied Commander in 1953. Said Al Gruenther: "I've played tennis three times this week, and intend to win another match tomorrow." He was going...