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...European allies wanted and formally requested an American for Ike's job. The choice fell between two men: Ridgway, and General Alfred Gruenther, No. 2 man in SHAPE under Ike and perhaps the smartest planner in a U.S. military uniform. A superb administrator, a crack bridge player, Gruenther knew NATO's problems and NATO's leaders, who privately hoped he would get the job. But the leaders were happy to accept Ridgway. Gruenther himself had once said he was too introverted for so extroversive a job as supreme commander. In his brilliant 33-year Army career...
...Plan. SHAPE divided its front into three parts: a central stronghold of Western Europe, with flanks on the north (Norway, Denmark) and south (Italy and the Mediterranean). Commands were set up in each sector. An international staff at SHAPE, under General Alfred M. Gruenther, centralized all planning...
This too was but a hypothesis. General Gruenther, Ike's chief of staff, went on record last week that SHAPE does not expect a Russian attack this year. Even if the hypothesis were wrong (as everybody hoped it was), Russia's germ warfare was the kind of tactic that could only poison the wells of international relations for years to come...
...kept to assigned positions. Communist leaflets in the city warned: "Out of here, you butcher Eisenhower! Greek children will not be your victims!" But friendly faces far outnumbered the threats. Next day, King Paul gave Eisenhower the Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior, and his deputy, General Gruenther, the Grand Cross of the Order of George...
Long before Pentagon days, Lieut. Colonel George Marshall so impressed General John Pershing. The Navy's Forrest Sherman was taken under the wing of Admiral Chester Nimitz; Lauris Norstad, now top airman in Europe, was tapped by General Hap Arnold. Lieut. General Al Gruenther, generally regarded as the most impressive briefing officer the Pentagon has produced, was once a comer himself, is now Eisenhower's chief of staff at SHAPE. Recently, Gruenther called for the Army's brightest comer, Brigadier General Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Schuyler, 50, to serve as his plans officer. He also got the loan...