Word: gruenther
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maggie Biddle set up a Paris salon just off the fashionable Boulevard St. Germain. The 18th century mansion was beautifully furnished, its walls hung with Renoirs, Utrillos, Constables and Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
...Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 59, president of the American Red Cross, longtime Eisenhower Chief of Staff, friend and bridge partner. Highly successful in his own right as one of Ike's successors in NATO, West Pointer ('19) Gruenther has only one thing working against him: West Pointer ('15) Eisenhower is reluctant to have a Secretary of State who is also a retired military professional...
Within the State Department there are already two possible choices--Undersecretaries Herter and Dillon--and outside the Department there are more--John McCloy, General Alfred Gruenther, and Ambassador David Bruce. Of these five possible choices--the nomination of Tom Dewey is about as probable as that of former Senator Knowland--only Bruce has all the qualifications for the position. Herter, seriously crippled by arthritis, has only been in the Department a few years; Dillon, though young and reportedly popular with Eisenhower, lacks a really broad background in foreign policy. Both McCloy and Gruenther have been out of the government...
...active role in foreign affairs, however, Cheever indicated that it might be necessary to sacrifice his familiarity with the strategy of the State Department and appoint a "more striking public figure to the Secretary's post for reasons of public confidence." He suggested such names as Gen. Alfred Gruenther, Henry Cabot Lodge '24, John J. McCloy, former High Commissioner to Germany, and David K. E. Bruce, Ambassador to Germany...
American Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, a four-star Army general at his retirement in 1956 after 38 years of commissioned service, smiled a thin smile in Omaha when reminded of the familiar G.I. gripe that officers have better luck than ordinary soldiers in dating Red Cross lasses on military duty overseas. Said Realist Gruenther, tersely: "They did, they do and they will...