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NATO's General Lauris Norstad has been tabbed as a boy wonder for so long that many people still think of him as a young man-an impression reinforced by his youthful appearance. He made brigadier general in North Africa in 1943, when he was 36-and looked 26. A year later, he was in Washington as chief of staff of the Twentieth Air Force, helping direct the 6-29 bombardment of Japan. After the war he played a major role in helping to set up an independent Air Force. He became U.S.A.F. European commander...
...anything, Norstad, now 55, has been too successful in his post. His deep concern for European defense has made Airman Norstad a strong advocate of a Europe-based NATO nuclear striking force, which is unacceptable to the Ken nedy Administration. In 1960 he had a mild heart attack; by last January he talked seriously of resigning. A few months later, he suffered an unpublicized second heart attack. Last week the White House announced Norstad's resignation -and with it came a major shake-up in the top command of U.S. armed forces...
NATO's disarray was obvious to both, what with General Lauris Norstad's estimated 25 divisions in Europe today, as against the 98 that the alliance originally planned to put in the field.. Both statesmen also were considerably less enthusiastic than the U.S. and Britain about the usefulness of summit negotiations with Russia (see THE NATION). Both were steel-strong in the determination to hang onto Berlin at any cost...
Unmuzzling himself in a London speech, Britain's General Sir Hugh Stockwell, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, brusquely denounced the idea of building NATO into the world's fourth nuclear power-a project dear to the heart of his U.S. chief, Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Snapped Sir Hugh: "I don't believe we should extend this nuclear weapon. Don't let every Tom, Dick and Harry go mucking about with the bloody thing." Then, in a sort of bow to the boss, he came to an abrupt halt: "I am speaking here as Hugh...
Atomic Backstop. But of all the U.S. Army troops, the men most under the Communist gun are those of the Seventh Army in Germany. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Lauris Norstad calls the Seventh "the best-equipped, best-led and best-trained Army the U.S. has ever fielded in peacetime." Says Seventh Army Commander Gar Davidson: "I'm confident we can handle whatever the So viets throw at us, and you can be damned sure there'll be a lot less Russians around if they...