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...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...
...problem in North Africa different is the presence of nearly 2,000,000 French settlers, many of them born in North Africa, which they regard as their home. Americans on the scene frequently accuse the settlers of being more narrow, repressive and intransigent than the French government. Marshal Alphonse Juin, commander of the NATO ground forces in Europe, was born at Bone in Algeria. Last week Juin (onetime Resident-General of Morocco, 1947-51) strongly attacked the U.S.'s wavering attitude. "There was nothing to get excited about so long as our opponents were only the Arab bloc, bound...
France and Germany, and make any kind of alliance with Germany impossible. Said the economic weekly La Vie Française last week: "[Juin] has expressed himself with measure and firmness. The Americans pursuing quite opposite ends have come to use the same language as Moscow and to reach the same conclusions: France must hand over. But France knows what she has accomplished in North Africa and does not ignore what remains to be done .. . France is an old enough nation, rich enough in experience, to determine herself the means to employ and the best moment to choose...
...solemn ceremony in Suresnes, France, SHAPE Chief Matthew B. Ridgway & wife, General George C. Marshall and France's Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin joined in the dedication of two new wings on the memorial chapel in the American Military Cemetery, where U.S. dead of both world wars are buried. Marshall, as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, delivered the main address...
...Britain support EDC-but from a distance; they are backers but not members. EDF's 2,000,000 ground-force soldiers would in time wear the same uniforms, use the same weapons, serve the same commander in chief, SHAPE'S Marshal of France Alphonse Juin. Proposed strength of EDF: 43 combat groupements (i.e., small streamlined divisions), 6,000 planes, a sizable navy for coastal defense...