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College of the Holy Cross General Alfred M. Gruenther, president, American Red Cross Sc.D...
...Washington's stately Metropolitan Club, Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther found former Democratic Secretary of State Dean Acheson in a jovial frame of mind. "Why don't you get over to the State Department and do something about all the trouble?" asked Acheson. Half-flattered, Gruenther answered: "Dulles isn't as bad as all that, do you think?" "Oh, I didn't mean you should take over from Foster," shot back Acheson, "but aren't you in charge of disaster areas...
...back up his argument, Newsman Sulzberger excerpted a letter to onetime NATO Commander in Chief Alfred Gruenther in which Belgium's NATO Ambassador Andre de Staercke chided the Western press for its "masochistic" tendency to see "just the weak points of our position." This attitude, said Veteran Diplomat de Staercke, is compounded by "lack of analysis, by sheer ignorance, by that kind of facility which makes bad news easier to believe than good news, or pessimism more secure than optimism...
...solution, finally arrived at in 1950, was to name him commander of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. Six months later, Norstad took on his first NATO assignment : Commander, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe. Last year, after serving as air deputy to SACEUR's Matthew Ridgway and Alfred Gruenther, he succeeded Gruenther as boss of SHAPE...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...