Word: gruentherized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Packing his bags in Paris last week, outgoing Supreme Allied Commander Matthew Ridgway, off to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, presented his successor, General Alfred M. Gruenther, with a new command setup and a few new commanders...
General Lauris Norstad, 46, the U.S. Air Force's brainy, blue-eyed wonder, will become Gruenther's Deputy for Air Forces in Europe; in his new role, he will be responsible for organizing, training and deploying all NATO's air forces from Iceland to Turkey so that they can be brought to bear-probably with atom bombs-on any part of Europe (because of the Abomb, an American has to have this job). For two years Norstad was SHAPE'S leading atom-warfare expert...
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...
...replace General Omar N. Bradley [as chairman], the top prospect is Admiral Arthur William Radford, naval aviator and commander of the Pacific Fleet . . . To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther . . . But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
Within a few weeks, the new Joint Chiefs had been named: Radford, Ridgway, Twining and Carney, and Gruenther had been appointed Supreme Allied Commander in Europe...