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...Challenge. That did it. With a flick of his dress gloves, France's first soldier was challenging the authority and assaulting the integrity of France's civilian leaders. The Cabinet could not treat the challenge lightly. Marshal Juin is France's military hero, an idol of its officer corps...
...only French man to hold one of the four top Euro pean commands in NATO. Tough and wiry, a born soldier and a patriot, he has a flair for fast horses, smart uniforms, brandy, and resounding candor. It was his candor and his refusal to curb it that proved Marshal Juin's undoing...
...about to be thrashed with saddle straps." Said Laniel to the Assembly, with a sigh: "I told him he could use a side entrance, but his mind was made up." The National Assembly laughed-in sympathy with Premier Laniel and with civilian government. It supported the sacking of Marshal Juin. Juin indicated that he would quit his NATO job-but not until he was assured that another Frenchman would...
...Marshal of France was fired. But his supporters had no intention of letting him fade away. Though he had often disavowed any political ambition, it remained to be seen whether Soldier Juin would become a power on the turbulent French political scene...
After years of postwar chaos and corruption, Greek politics finally achieved a state of equilibrium when two widely disparate personalities teamed up in Athens. One was resolute old Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, the war hero who was elected Premier at the head of the coalition Greek Rally Party. The other: a brilliant and unpredictable political rival named Spyros Markezinis. A small man with a quick brain, Spyros Markezinis was as unpopular as his new boss was beloved. But Papagos made him Minister of Economic Planning, gave him complete control of the disheveled Greek economy. Soon many of the gossips...