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...problems of stocking U.S. atomic bombs in France." For more than a year, De Gaulle's open hostility to the NATO concept of integrated Western defense had given the alliance an embarrassing hole in the center. Recently NATO's European commander, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, requested a do-or-die interview with De Gaulle, spent an hour and a half documenting NATO's argument that the swift air speeds of modern war rule out separate national air defense systems in an area as small as Western Europe. To make sure he got De Gaulle...
Going It Together. Since then, De Gaulle no longer challenges NATO's power to order planes of all member nations into immediate action in case of a Soviet attack. (In tactful return, Norstad saw to it that a French officer would command the aircraft of France, West Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg.) On their own initiative French diplomats have proposed some new form of NATO "association" for France's Mediterranean Fleet-which De Gaulle pulled out from under NATO command last March...
Died. Admiral Pierre Barjot, 60, naval deputy to NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad, a longtime De Gaulle supporter and World War II Free French leader who figured in the behind-the-scenes maneuvers to compel French North Africa to enter the war on the side of the Allies, later (1956) commanded the French naval forces in the ill-starred attack on Suez; of cancer; in Paris...
...Mediterranean fleet from NATO control. Then he refused NATO permission to stockpile U.S.-controlled atomic weapons in France. And for the past year he has obdurately blocked the plans for integrated air defense of Europe advocated by NATO's European commander, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad...
...NATO's Continental members, France is the only one that has refused Norstad authority to send its planes into immediate action in event of a Soviet attack, the only one that has refused to hook into the Europe-wide air-warning-and-command net that NATO hopes to finish building by 1961. (Given the small size of Western Europe-Paris lies only 350 miles from the Communist frontier of East Germany-this is roughly like refusing to agree to coordinated air defense of Chicago and Minneapolis...