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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Truman's nomination of Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther to be Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff (TIME, Jan. 1) touched off a wholesale changing of name plates on Army office doors last week. Among the changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bright Stars | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

...week's end, at the National Airport, he reviewed a guard of honor from all services, made a four-way handclasp with Truman, Acheson and Marshall, kissed wife Mamie, and set off in Marshall's shiny Constellation for Paris. A reporter said to Lieut. General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's chief of staff, who accompanied him: "I hope you have the best of luck." Said Gruenther: "Don't hope. Pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Again, Ike | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...will be a long, hard task." It would be hard but, as Ike well knew, the Russians would decide whether it would be long. As his right hand and chief of staff, he chose an old crony of war plans and the bridge table, Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 51, a steel-trap military mind and the U.S. Army's General Staff Deputy for Plans & Operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Nub of NATO | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

When Eisenhower and Gruenther take up their task in Europe early in January, they will have at their disposal the staff groundwork laid by the five Western Union governments (Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). Last week Western Union agreed to merge its two-year-old joint staff (headquartered at Fontainebleau under British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery) with the new NATO high command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Nub of NATO | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Washington believed that General Dwight Eisenhower was (at long last) about to be officially named head of Western European defense, that his chief of staff would be the Army's top planner, scholarly Lieut. General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Who's in Charge? | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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