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...Netherlands. All in all, more than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers since World War II. Formidable as these forces sound, they do not satisfy NATO's Supreme Commander, blond, boyish-looking U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Last week, giving the top military brass of the 15 NATO nations a secret preview of the formal five-year plan that he will submit to NATO's permanent Council next month, Norstad stubbornly reiterated that if it is to be an effective shield against Soviet aggression in Europe NATO must...
After the first rash of headlines, the U.S.-publicly and officially-took the announcement as it should have been taken: calmly. Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower took note of the Communists' "boastful statement." NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad noted tersely that the Russians had made blackmail threats before, had failed before. "Then," he said, "the alliance was unshaken, even unimpressed. So it will...
...Revealed by way of a NATO Council announcement in Paris that the U.S. would provide some of its NATO allies with three types of missiles in fiscal 1957, among them the ground-to-ground Honest John and Matador, the ground-to-air Nike. Said General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe: although U.S. law forbids the delivery of weapons with nuclear warheads, the NATO forces should get training in both "conventional" and nuclear missilery...
...greatest point of concern in Washington was what would develop in NATO. The British White Paper came on the day that General Lauris Norstad and his top aides were observing NATO's eighth anniversary, and the question that immediately presented itself was: Will the British decision start a chain reaction for reduction of forces among the other NATO allies, e.g., France and Italy? In the new distribution of power, there would be a new and different premium on the West German ground forces, whose General Hans Speidel has just taken over as Norstad's commander of allied land...
Britain's reduction of troops will weaken the numerical strength of the SHAPE troops under General Lauris Norstad, but it does not affect what is the really solid strength of NATO: the commitment by 15 nations, backed by U.S. nuclear power, to regard an attack upon one as an attack upon all. Europe's confidence in that commitment remained strong and sure-as testified by the resolute calm with which Denmark and Norway fortnight ago, and The Netherlands last week, met Bulganin's dark threats of H-bombs...