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NATO's Lauris Norstad...
Sharp Realization. The policy contained two major points: 1) an agreement that U.S. intermediate range ballistic missiles will be "put at the disposal of the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe" [i.e., the U.S.'s General Lauris Norstad] with location of missile bases and details of their operation to be worked out later; 2) an agreement that NATO would seek new disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union-preferably in the U.N., but at the foreign minister level if Russia insisted on that procedure...
Taking over from the President, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spelled out the U.S. plan. The U.S: was prepared to make available to U.S. General Lauris Norstad. NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, a stock of intermediate range ballistic missiles. Norstad would assign the missiles to any NATO member that wanted them and, in his judgment, had need of them. To give the missiles nuclear punch in case of war with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. also proposed to establish stockpiles of nuclear warheads in Europe. But the warheads, unlike the missiles themselves, would remain in U.S. custody...
...morning he drove out to suburban Rocquencourt to visit SHAPE-the NATO military headquarters which he established in 1951. Ignoring the freezing wind, Ike stood at salute through the Marseillaise and The Star-Spangled Banner, then set off on a tour of the headquarters with U.S. General Lauris Norstad. the man who now holds his old job as SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander Europe). After a quick look at the office that he left in 1952 to campaign for the presidency, Ike dropped into the officers' mess, sipped at a martini proffered by Norstad with the rueful comment...
...will give intermediate-range ballistic missiles and the nuclear warheads for them to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe-currently U.S. General Lauris Norstad. SACEUR can then pass the missiles on to any NATO country that i) wants them, and 2) in his opinion, has strategic need of them. Custody of the warheads will remain in the hands of SACEUR acting solely in his capacity as a U.S. officer. Thus no significant modification of the McMahon Act (which makes it illegal to put U.S. nuclear weapons in the hands of non-U.S. forces, or to share atomic military secrets with...