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...Link Theory. "The trouble," reported TIME Correspondent Jim Bell, "is that the Geneva Summit meeting killed the fear on which NATO was built." At ceremonies outside Paris last week marking NATO's seventh anniversary, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther put an optimistic face on things, and tried to get abreast of the new trend. As if acknowledging some force to Mollet's charges of exaggerated preoccupation with military matters, Gruenther said: "Because NATO has so grown in stature and in military strength . . . NATO can now move with greater strength into other [social and economic] fields. We at SHAPE...
...French West Africa. Under protective arrest, Algerian Nationalist Leader Messali Hadj, who three weeks ago organized the strike of 10,000 Algerians in Paris, was transferred from mainland France to an island off the Brittany coast. Reflecting new allied sympathy for France's efforts, SHAPE Commander General Al Gruenther gave his approval to France's withdrawal of two first-class divisions from NATO's European shield in Germany, declaring that Algeria was "indispensable to Western defense...
...reports on the Puerto Rico conference on defense planning. Slipping out of the White House one night, he dined with members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Board, and listened to a briefing on North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems by his old friend and aide, General Alfred Gruenther. Ike added a new meeting to his schedule: for the first time he attended a session of the "sub-cabinet," made up of the deputies and assistants to Cabinet members...
...Gruenther, I can't help feeling the following lines (from The Pirates of Penzance) suit...
...enjoyed your story on NATO, but why is NATO's other Supreme Command (SACLANT) so consistently ignored? I do not doubt the importance of SHAPE, or the great abilities of General Gruenther, but Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., as Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, is responsible for NATO's defense of the vast 12 million square miles of ocean that separate Europe from America...