Word: norstad
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Unmuzzling himself in a London speech, Britain's General Sir Hugh Stockwell, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, brusquely denounced the idea of building NATO into the world's fourth nuclear power-a project dear to the heart of his U.S. chief, Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Snapped Sir Hugh: "I don't believe we should extend this nuclear weapon. Don't let every Tom, Dick and Harry go mucking about with the bloody thing." Then, in a sort of bow to the boss, he came to an abrupt halt: "I am speaking here as Hugh...
Atomic Backstop. But of all the U.S. Army troops, the men most under the Communist gun are those of the Seventh Army in Germany. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Lauris Norstad calls the Seventh "the best-equipped, best-led and best-trained Army the U.S. has ever fielded in peacetime." Says Seventh Army Commander Gar Davidson: "I'm confident we can handle whatever the So viets throw at us, and you can be damned sure there'll be a lot less Russians around if they...
General Lauris Norstad. Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Sc.D...
...would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger voice in shaping the alliance's policy, perhaps offer to let a Frenchman succeed U.S. General Lauris Norstad as NATO's European commander...
...Norstad is not the only man dissatisfied with the idea that only the U.S. should possess the capacity for total atomic warfare; the Pentagon, Harold Macmillan, and Konrad Adenauer have all in one fashion or another complained of NATO's inability to do anything more than "blunt and delay" an enemy attack through its ground and air forces. These murmurings have had their results. Last November, Robert R. Bowie of the Center for International Affairs presented a report to Washington recommending that the U.S. (1) strengthen conventional non-nuclear forces in Europe, and (2) provide NATO forces with strategic nuclear...