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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...
Dutifully, Airman Norstad presented his case to Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, 90, chairman of the once-great committee, and to New Jersey Republican H. Alexander Smith, 78. Norstad had hoped that his prepared statement would draw some penetrating questions about the job military aid does in building NATO and protecting Western Europe. Instead, weary old Alex Smith asked him what "SACLANT" meant. Norstad patiently explained that it meant, as it had for six years, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. When Smith started to ask other questions, Green cut him off: "It is undesirable to have...
...General Norstad's reception was symptomatic of congressional lollygagging on both foreign aid and foreign trade. The Capitol Hill attitude was best summed up by one of the absent committee members, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who prides himself on being a leading Democratic light on foreign relations. "The Administration," said Mansfield last week, "is pushing foreign aid, and for that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks...