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...official flag. Color: navy blue and white. Officially, the flag is said to be "a four pointed star representing the compass that keeps us on the right road-the path of peace-and a circle representing the unity that binds together the 14 countries." But NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay of Britain was much less high flown in approving the design. "It is," said he, "simple and inoffensive...
Last week, as it has been for the past several weeks, the White House list of appointments was heavy with foreign callers. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek came in for tea and some serious talk. Dutch Foreign Minister J.M.A.H. Luns had a lengthy discussion of European defense. NATO Secretary Lord Ismay was the honor guest at the Eisenhowers' first full-blown state dinner. South Korean Foreign Minister Yong Tae Pyun called, and General John E. Hull, vice chief of staff, departing on an important special mission to Egypt, dropped in at the White House for final instructions...
...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...
...evening last January, in the pale green dining room of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime Minister again, and enjoying it. Sitting near him were Lords Ismay, Cherwell and Alexander. Among the 40 guests, few noticed the tall, slim British general seated downtable. But suddenly Churchill waved a brandy glass at the officer and bellowed...
...counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter was no longer in the news, did Lord, Ismay say weakly: "I would say that [Malenkov's claim] is not exactly truthful by a very long...