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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...
...soft-spoken Swabian who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (he once taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is a cultivated specimen of the oldtime German general staffer. On his desk he keeps two photographs-one of the late General Ludwig Beck, the stiff-backed martinet who headed the German general staff 20 years ago, the other of turn-of-the-century German Dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann...
Next to Heusinger, with the title chief of armed forces, will be Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 58, also an arrested suspect in the Hitler bomb plot. A round-faced man with spare hair and glasses, Speidel served in France, Russia and Italy in World War 11, became Rommel's chief of staff on the Western front. He was teaching history at Tubingen University in 1950 when Adenauer asked him to come to Bonn as an adviser, later sent him to Paris as West German observer to EDC and NATO...
Heusinger, Speidel and their three colleagues plan to have the first training companies of West Germany's projected twelve divisions...
...finds that his son has ground up his favorite slippers in the Disposall, whereupon he decides to stay home more often and become reacquainted with his family. This homey theme is developed with lighthearted good humor and is ably performed by Thomas and his TV wife, Jean Hagen. Sponsors: Speidel Co. and the American Tobacco...