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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...
Should It Be Done? Yes, without qualification. NATO's Lauris Norstad was perhaps first and foremost in grasping the logic of launching IRBMs from European bases. His proposition, pushed hard during a trip to Washington last week: the IRBMs would be under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (currently, the U.S.'s Norstad). Since only SACEUR could order the weapons into war, no individual nation, bent on some strictly nationalistic adventure, could toss them off into the wild blue yonder. NATO's IRBM launchers would be manned by European troops-but they would...
...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...
Thanks to those bases and to a superior nuclear arsenal, the U.S. has always before been in a position to inflict what NATO's General Lauris Norstad once called "absolute" destruction on Russia. This capacity-the ability to smash Russia from close up and hence to destroy her more thoroughly than she could hope to destroy the U.S.-has been the ultimate deterrent to Russian military adventures. If the day of an ICBM standoff and of equal capacity for destruction is now dawning, new force will be given to Stalin's dictum to Roosevelt at Yalta: "Neither...