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General Lauris Norstad. Supreme Allied Commander, Europe Sc.D...
...would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger voice in shaping the alliance's policy, perhaps offer to let a Frenchman succeed U.S. General Lauris Norstad as NATO's European commander...
...principal immediate problem is a military one. General Lauris Norstad, the brilliant Supreme Commander of Allied Forces who is probably about to retire, has recommended that NATO not only be given control over American tactical nuclear forces in Europe but acquire a strategic nuclear force of its own as well. He feels, in fact, that NATO should become a "fourth atomic power" with an armory including everything from short-range Honest Johns to 1500-mile ICBM...
...Norstad is not the only man dissatisfied with the idea that only the U.S. should possess the capacity for total atomic warfare; the Pentagon, Harold Macmillan, and Konrad Adenauer have all in one fashion or another complained of NATO's inability to do anything more than "blunt and delay" an enemy attack through its ground and air forces. These murmurings have had their results. Last November, Robert R. Bowie of the Center for International Affairs presented a report to Washington recommending that the U.S. (1) strengthen conventional non-nuclear forces in Europe, and (2) provide NATO forces with strategic nuclear...
...Germany's new forces are meshed with NATO more thoroughly than any other nation's. Every unit is or will soon be committed to NATO, under the overall command of the U.S.'s General Lauris Norstad. Even in the event of an East German uprising against their Communist rulers, Strauss has said, "There will be no military West German reaction. Our troops are NATO troops." About two-thirds of all Bundeswehr supplies and ammunition are to be stored in other NATO countries. All major weapons systems are closely interlocked with those of other NATO countries. Strauss...