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...NATO's council to release news have to be unanimous; any one of the 14 member nations can block such a proposal. Though information officers on NATO's staff have fought to get more news out, military men have been afflicted with what NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay called a "secrecy phobia." Correspondents also complain that incoming SHAPE officers have no idea of 1) how to deal with the press, and 2) how to use NATO news to counteract Communist propaganda...
...SHAPE commander, he dealt and held his own with such formidable and experienced personalities as Britain's Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery and General Lord Ismay, France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, Marshal Alphonse Juin and the late General de Lattre de Tassigny, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, Portugal's Premier Salazar, Italy's Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. From Oslo to Lisbon to Ankara, Eisenhower impressed himself on governments and peoples as the unifying leader in resistance to Communism...
Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians...
...Heavy Harness. A big, robust man, Ismay has the tact and shrewdness needed for NATO's new job. He, himself, in a House of Lords speech last year, was searchingly critical of NATO's unwieldy complexity: "Rather a lot of harness and not much horse," he called it. "I believe there is a hiatus at the summit...
...Ismay will be the council's permanent chairman, the chief administrator of its staff, its top civilian liaison man with its nominal military subordinate. General Eisenhower, and the man who must nudge the governments to make sure they carry out their commitments. It will be up to Ismay to see that the hiatus at the summit is filled...