Word: norstad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demilitarized "free city.'' The NATO ministers gave short shrift to neutralist disengagement schemes, held fast to the basic point that Germany must be reunited by free elections, with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Said NATO's commanding general in Europe. Lauris Norstad: "There must be absolutely no misunderstanding about the determination of this alliance to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression." Meanwhile, world Communism, by contrast, frustrated in 1958 by Secretary Dulles' firmness in Lebanon, Quemoy and now Berlin, was once more under heavy domestic pressure both in Russia and China...
...Alamein, 70, stepped out of SHAPE'S headquarters building near Paris, marched briskly past cheering troops (including a blue-grey contingent of the Germans he had fought so well in World War II). Then Monty shook hands with his boyish-looking boss, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, 51, and drove off. "Silly old boy," mused one British private soldier, "but we'll miss...
Guiding such frail missiles as Royal Coachmen and Grey Hackles, NATO's General Lauris Norstad fished a chill, rushing trout stream in the Salzburg Alps, put in a four-day vacation near Hitler's old aerie at Berchtesgaden. From morning golf and afternoon angling he took off just enough time to make a short statement for the American Forces Network on the preparedness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: "We still have some way to go, but we are now over the hump. Our strength is very real and very significant...
Your April 7 report on General Norstad's "reception" by our Senate Foreign Relations Committee points up the tragical likelihood that the U.S. will lose further ground to nations with governments less hamstrung than ours in dealing with national or international problems by day-to-day dependence on unqualified legislators...
...LAURIS NORSTAD...