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...Selected as Army Vice Chief of Staff: General Lyman Lemnitzer, 57, replacing General Williston Palmer, who will go to Europe to be deputy U.S. commander in chief under NATO Commander Lauris J. Norstad. Paratrooper Lemnitzer succeeded General Maxwell Taylor as Far East Ground Commander and chief of the U.S. Far East Command, is an odds-on favorite to follow him as Chief of Staff...
...those London dinners where white ties and tails and decorations are worn. The honored guest, NATO's new Supreme Commander. U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, heard himself felicitously toasted but also told in plain language by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "Insurance is a fine thing, but overinsurance can be debilitating . . . What the balance should be, under our democratic society, is a matter for statesmen responsible to their Parliaments and their people...
NATO's Norstad was not surprised by the long-expected British cutback, but he was nonetheless pained. In secret talks that preceded last week's announcement, Airman Norstad was concerned by the widespread tendency to say that ground troops no longer matter, since they can be compensated for by more technological weapons. If the British reason for reduction in force is economic, he pleaded, they owe it to their partners to say so. This the British did. This explanation, Norstad hoped, would not give other NATO nations an excuse to follow suit, since all of them except...
After the British cuts, Norstad will have fewer than 15 divisions in his command-though the French have promised to restore to the NATO shield "as soon as possible" two divisions withdrawn last year for service in North Africa...
Duly invited by Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad to fill its first big NATO post, Bonn last week nominated Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 59, to the Central European land-forces command. Thus U.S., British and French divisions in Germany will now pass under the command of a man who fought against them in two wars. The French, who might have been expected to make a fuss, were already taken care of; only in Britain, which will have four divisions under Speidel's command, could there be heard the suppressed sound of tight-throat swallowing...