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...NATO, the British would like to pull two of their four divisions out of West Germany and leave the line to a "tripwire force" adequate to flash invasion warnings to the deterrent H-bombers in Britain and the U.S. As the Manchester Guardian put it this week: "General Gruenther's screen across Europe is too weak to stop an assault by Soviet forces in East Germany, but stronger than it need be merely to act as a burglar alarm." This thinking also coincides with Radford's, but it dismays West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and NATO...
Last week NATO issued a terse communiqué concerning its most cantankerous commander. "General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe," it read, "announced today that Marshal Alphonse Juin has just informed him he intends to request release from his appointment as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe...
...NATO is by no means ready to sustain such a loss as contemplated by the proposed foreign-aid cuts (which International Cooperation Administrator John Hollister last week estimated would more than halve the allowance for NATO's military hardware over the next fiscal year).' Gruenther said that the full West German contributions of twelve divisions and 1,380 aircraft will not be available for three more years. Not until then will NATO really be strong enough to defend West Europe against Russia...
...Senators were generally sympathetic, said privately that Gruenther had made the finest possible presentation of the Administration's case. But that, apparently, was not enough. Barring emergency Administration action, the prospect was that the more than $1 billion foreign-aid cut already voted by the House Foreign Affairs Committee (TIME, June 4) would probably stick when the House and Senate came to a final vote...
Through fellow Nebraskan General Alfred Gruenther, Seaton met Dwight Eisenhower in France in 1952, later became a key strategist on Ike's campaign team. In September 1953 the President called Seaton to Washington to straighten out Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's troubles with Congress and the press. As Assistant Secretary of Defense for legislative and public affairs, he played an effective behind-the-scenes role in the Army's 1954 wrestle with Joe McCarthy. Last year he was drafted into the White House as a key presidential assistant, became a troubleshooter and adviser, not only on politics...