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...adulation. Admits one French news paper: a commander "less flexible and less informed on European politics-the short period of command by General Ridgway shows this-would have brought great peril not only to the military organization but the Atlantic alliance itself." Said able NATO Secretary-General Lord Ismay, who as personal chief of staff to Churchill in World War II, has seen many: "General Gruenther is the greatest soldier-statesman I have ever known...
...economy, and decide what it should contribute. Their goals, approved by a NATO council meeting in Lisbon in February 1952: 50 divisions, half of them active, by the end of 1952, increasing to 70 the next year, to 97 by the end of 1954. Three years later, Lord Ismay admitted: "The Lisbon goals are as dead as a dodo." * All atomic weapons would not only be U.S. made, but also U.S. triggered. By act of Congress, no other nation is allowed in on U.S. atomic weapons. Gruenther would like to change this out-of-date provision (which irritates allies...
...Provocation. In Paris, NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay called an unprecedented meeting of the NATO Council. Never before had NATO met to make peace between its own members. At the meeting, Turkish representative Mehmet Ali Tiney presented his government's apologies for the riots, but added: "Of course, there was a certain provocation...
...come out of World War II. Ordinarily, the Martin story might induce more raised eyebrows than belief. But documented as it is, written by Britain's present Judge Advocate of the Fleet, Ewen Montagu, and coming with the imprimatur of Churchill's wartime Chief of Staff Lord Ismay, it can be enjoyed as one of the most bizarre stories of deception in recent military history...
...easy to get approval (Lord Ismay admits that he was dubious), but Winston Churchill was for it. When someone objected that the stunt might misfire and only call attention to the impending invasion of Sicily, Churchill replied, "I don't see that that matters. Anybody but a damn fool would know it is Sicily...