Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only living Marshal of France in 1952, he publicly blamed the United States for France's troubles in North Africa and Indo-China, and threatened to lead his nation personally out of the United Nations if Washington did not mend its ways. Back in Paris as NATO's Commander for Central Europe, Juin went on picking and fighting his enemies as he saw them. His opponents accused him of an overriding ambition: waiting for a summons to rule France once the parliamentarians had made a complete mess of it. While in his NATO job, he blasted...
Stripped of his French army jobs and officially spanked by the NATO Council in a resolution condemning "the public utterances of Marshal Alphonse Juin," the obstreperous old soldier went right on saying his say with uninhibited vigor. Strongly opposing any kind of liberal policy toward the rebels in North Africa, 67-year-old Juin last month proposed in a magazine article that NATO itself take on the job of quelling the trouble in Algeria. The proposition was received at SHAPE headquarters with the utmost coolness...
Last week NATO issued a terse communiqué concerning its most cantankerous commander. "General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe," it read, "announced today that Marshal Alphonse Juin has just informed him he intends to request release from his appointment as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe...
...Pineau and Dulles could register agreement on only three specifics: 1) the Middle East crisis should be handled through the U.N.; 2) foolproof inspection and controls must precede disarmament; 3) NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields should be improved. Pineau got in ten minutes in Walter Reed with the President (who asked about the situation in Algeria), and then drove downtown to address an audience of members and guests of the National Press Club...
...FOREIGN NEWS) that the U.S. ought to help the French pacify the Algerian nationalists. Deputy Under Secretary Murphy heard out the protests of Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine (speaking for eight Arab nations) that the French army was already using U.S. war materiel against "the national liberation movement," and that NATO was becoming "a direct means to support colonialism." The U.S. subtly indicated its own feelings on North Africa by elevating a new diplomatic mission at Rabat, capital of newly free Morocco, to the status of an embassy...