Word: nato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO's Gruenther...
...serving in the NATO command . . . the feeling of just what we are doing here often arises in all of us; your informative Feb. 6 article certainly clarifies our position and gives one a feeling of confidence to know that a man like General Gruenther is running the show...
...enjoyed your story on NATO, but why is NATO's other Supreme Command (SACLANT) so consistently ignored? I do not doubt the importance of SHAPE, or the great abilities of General Gruenther, but Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., as Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, is responsible for NATO's defense of the vast 12 million square miles of ocean that separate Europe from America...
...West's newest ally, West Germany, was making a most disagreeable impression on its friends last week. Chiefly responsible was crabbed, pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer. Schäffer was flatly unwilling to pay what Germany's NATO partners consider a fair share of Western defense...
...NATO's troubles with Herr Schäffer began in December, when Schäffer told the NATO council that the most prosperous country in Europe could not afford any more than 9 billion Deutsche Marks ($2 billion) a year for defense during the three-year period required to build a twelve-division army. The NATO allies pointed out indignantly that this was only 5.5% of West Germany's gross national product, proportionally only half what the U.S. and Britain are contributing. Grumbling, they finally accepted Schäffer's figure for 1956 because the German army...