Word: kissner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kissner, chief of the U.S. military mission, Stadta agreed that American men and women serving in Spain would also be forbidden to contract "mixed marriages" among themselves, unless the church agreed. Stadta's intention was that approval should be sought from the Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S.-New York's Cardinal Spellman. But as reported from Madrid, his covenant seemed to say that the Spanish Catholic clergy could veto a marriage between a Protestant G.I. and a Catholic WAC or WAVE...
...dependent upon us it is absurd." Thundered the National Association of Evangelicals: "An affront to all true Protestants." Flustered by the outcry, the Pentagon called an urgent conference of State Department and Air Force brass and tried to soothe everyone. The agreement has not yet been signed, said General Kissner, and when it is, it "would assure to all of our people here the traditional American right to worship according to the dictates of their consciences...
...headquarters at Offutt. For his deputy commander LeMay picked handsome, high-polished Thomas Sarsfield Power, 45, a bold, skillful pilot and something the Old Man is not: a diplomat and smoother-over. LeMay's chief of staff, tall, soft-spoken Major General August Walter Kissner, 44, is two other things LeMay is not: a West Pointer and a man who can do paper work and like...