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...like that: it exists only in principle. All its members, except West Germany, have long since committed their armies to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), whose Supreme Commander is an American: General Alfred M. Gruenther. West Germany has no army, and as a defeated enemy, may not legally rearm until a peace treaty has been signed and sealed. To make German arms palatable to Europeans who still bore the teethmarks of Nazi aggression, a Frenchman (ex-Premier René Pleven) suggested EDC, which would add German strength to NATO, but still enable the West to keep...
...That EDC is militarily cumbersome and impractical. General Gruenther insists that EDC is "completely feasible and workable," but a lot of lesser hands don't think...
BERIA FALL OPENS NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR WORLD PEACE. Said the New York News: BERIA'S BOOTING COULD MEAN WAR-GRUENTHER. Warned the good grey New York Times: NO CHANGE IN POLICY SEEN. Diplomats the world over interpreted the event in the light of their own problems. Said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles: "A new convulsion is under way . . . Inherent weakness is disclosed." British Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting called it "the dividend of our strength." In Bonn, Adenauer's rivals saw Beria's fall giving them an edge in the coming elections. In Yugoslavia, Tito...
General Matthew Ridgway, in a farewell chat with correspondents at Roquencourt near Paris before turning over his SHAPE command to General Alfred Gruenther, aired some philosophical thoughts. Driving to headquarters that morning, he had found the highway crammed with vacation-bound motorists bearing camp chairs and tennis rackets, and "it just sort of puts things in a little better perspective. This turnover of command this morning, which has a rather important place in my thinking and in General Gruenther's . . . really doesn't make much difference to the rest of the world-they're bound...
Lieut. General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 52, commander of the U.S. 28th Infantry Division, will succeed Gruenther as Chief of Staff. Schuyler is a protégé of Eisenhower and Gruenther, for much of the past two years has had charge of SHAPE'S atomic problems...