Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject to the greatest strains, internal and external, in its history, its heads of government will meet, at the call of President Dwight Eisenhower, for NATO's most important conclave. In Eisenhower's former role as NATO Supreme Commander is a U.S. Air Force general named Lauris Norstad. For a report on NATO, its leaders, its strengths, its doubts and its future, see FOREIGN NEWS, The View at the Summit...
...cover portrait of General Norstad was painted by Italy's Pietro Annigoni in three two-hour sittings while the general listened to Tchaikovsky on his hi-fi set. Said Annigoni of Norstad: "Very intelligent, very sympathetic, very American." Said Norstad of Annigoni: "A no-nonsense kind...
...could plot this new course except statesmen and diplomats. But the man who knows most about the terrain ahead and who must lead NATO along the course the summiteers lay down is a lean, greying figure in U.S. Air Force blue. More than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties of the NATO alliance-the insistence on selfish national objectives, the tendency to "let George do it." More than any diplomat, he influences the day-by-day progress of NATO-the integration of armed forces...
...This meeting is an event of the first order of magnitude," says Norstad. "It may be compared only with the establishment of NATO and the outbreak of the Korean war. It's all very well to make statements of principle, but now we must make a statement of the things we are doing, tangible things...
...Norstad's proposal was an outgrowth of the U.S.-United Kingdom agreement at Bermuda last March, in which the U.S. promised to provide Britain with IRBMs (but without nuclear warheads*), to replace the firepower of its dwindling military manpower. It will be placed before the December meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Paris...