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Apathetic Resignation? None of this means that NATO is falling apart, or even badly faltering. But to NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway it was a bitter disappointment. "As the responsible military commander," he told a graduating class of SHAPE officers the day after the conference broke up, -"I reject as unjustifiably dangerous the view that potential aggressors do not want war, are not ready for war and will not precipitate war: that we are in for a long cold war and, therefore, should adjust our plans...
...years of Anglo-American friction over command of NATO forces in the vital Mediterranean area. The solution was a kind of two-in-one oil: Britain and the U.S. will share joint command in the area, subject to the higher authority of NATO's Supreme Commander Matthew B. Ridgway...
Holding up Britain's end will be able, handsome Vice Admiral Louis Mountbatten, uncle of the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Carney will be of equal standing under Ridgway, and in time of war will "coordinate." What did the word mean? reporters asked. "Coordinate," explained NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain, "is fixing it with the other chap...
...available, it remains dangerously inadequate. More important, the roll call of Allied "reserves" is woefully short. Some 20 reserve divisions exist in embryo, but few would be ready for action within the 30-day mobilization period specified by NATO. Without more reserves, says NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway, Europe lacks the minimum military requirement to "take and turn a Russian assault...
...again. Some of the high scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands (132 birds), the Duke of Edinburgh (103), President Auriol (61). Following the morning's activity, lunch was served to the guests, including Queen Juliana, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn, SHAPE'S Matthew B. Ridgway, France's Premier Antoine Pinay. In the early afternoon gamekeepers returned to the morning's shooting grounds with bags of grain for the pheasants that had survived...