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Rhee's stand, discounted at first, soon threatened to become the major obstacle to an armistice. Eisenhower summoned Secretary Dulles, Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins and Assistant Defense Secretary Frank C. Nash into an emergency session at the White House. A reply to Rhee was worked out. On Sunday, as General Mark Clark flew with Eisenhower's letter from Tokyo to Seoul, the White House released the text...
...replace General Omar N. Bradley [as chairman], the top prospect is Admiral Arthur William Radford, naval aviator and commander of the Pacific Fleet . . . To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther . . . But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
...Announced two NATO appointments: General Joseph Lawton Collins, retiring Army chief of staff, to be the representative of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on NATO's Military Committee and Standing Group; and New York Textile Man John C. Hughes, 61, a World War I aide of General John J. Pershing and World War II OSS official, to be the U.S. representative, with ambassadorial rank, on the North Atlantic Council...
...Transfer of executive responsibility for a unified, multiservice command from one of the Joint Chiefs (e.g., Korea under Army General J. Lawton Collins. Alaska under Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg) to a civilian service secretary. Result: more civilian control, and a further confinement of the Joint Chiefs to their role of "military advisers...
Army. To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, 57, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 52, NATO's scholarly chief of staff. But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway, NATO commander. Ridgway, more of a fighter than a diplomat, could be counted upon to keep the U.S. Army in fighting shape. Leading candidate: Ridgway...