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...Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, France's top soldier and the man most likely to command the European Army, if ever it is formed, seriously damaged its prospects by denouncing the EDC treaty as "insufficient . . . not clear enough," a "misdeal" at France's expense...
When the time came for a man to follow the successful De Lattre and the unsuccessful Salan in Indo-China, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse Juin, France's No. 1 soldier, looked only to the next desk for the man; Navarre had become Juin's chief of staff. Of Juin's choice an official in Washington remarked: "In our opinion, Navarre is a man of courage, energy and imagination. He knows his business and has military and political guts of a high order . . . [He] is leading a new team which looks pretty good...
...SHAPE correspondents' luncheon last week, the guest of honor, hard-boiled Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, was asked: "Are you considering becoming a candidate for President of the Republic?" Replied Juin, the only living Marshal of France, and NATO's central European chief: "I should not give up my title as Marshal for the sake of another which carries with it more tiresome drudgery than real power." By teatime the remark had reached the ears of President Vincent Auriol, who chooses not to run again when his term expires next January. "Well," the President snapped to his Cabinet...
Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, 64, France's tough, seven-starred No. 2 soldier, will set up a new, unified headquarters as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Central Europe. Previously, at Eisenhower's insistence, air, sea and ground forces in that crucial sector were under direct control of SHAPE. Juin's appointment is designed to soothe Frenchmen who feel that France does not have enough high-ranking positions in NATO...
...Marshal Sir Basil Embry, 51, will take over, under Juin, the Allied Air Forces of Central Europe. Sir Basil, a jovial, able daredevil, was shot down in France in World War II, escaped by knocking out three German guards, walked and cycled across France in workman's clothes, watched Hitler enter Paris, in all was captured three times, escaped three times. Once, posing as an Irish patriot, he was challenged to speak Gaelic, fooled the Germans by a flood of Urdu, which he had learned in India. Back in combat, Embry took on a series of missions, once dive...