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...with a board of commissioners, a council of ministers, a six-nation assembly and a court of disputes. EDC's soldiers will form a truly multinational army. They will wear the same uniforms, use the same weapons, serve under the same commander in chief: France's Alphonse Juin, 63, SHAPE commander of Central European ground forces...
...goes back to 1185. In recent years it was tarnished by Pétain, but given new luster by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, who got it posthumously. Last week the Republic picked two more: the late Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque (killed in a 1947 plane crash) and Alphonse Juin...
...announcement, coming the same week that Juin assumed command of NATO's European land forces, set SHAPE'S protocol officers to biting their nails. With his marshal's baton and seven-starred, oak-and laurel-leaf-encrusted kept Juin will outrank his new boss, four-star General Ridgway (who is also outranked by another subordinate, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery). Probable solution: a fifth star for Ridgway...
...brass Pentagon conference in January, delegates of the Big Three Western powers, including France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, conferred about the sword of Damocles hanging over Indo-China...
...General Juin to head French forces in Germany...