| OCR Text |
Show atanda Ven’ / an wha7 é | neraibien "WASHINGTON (UPD—The allied Meatwhile as ihe Berlin crisis | military position in West Berlin is continues, here is the general line-TUp. Of. East and West a “extremely vulnerable.”’ e That is the word from officers on .|the staff of Gen. C. D. -Eddleman, forces: RAS: Commander of U. S. army Forees in| “are Mowarnen one. recently " RUSSIA R visited se Nw 8 er oe ye headquarters at. Heidelberg, the satellites, | i 450 ube German these officers pointed out marines. She is introducing a new all-weather fighter plane. sae : has six divisions in the | Of her total ground forces, immediate vicinity of East Berlin. divisions are said to be west 135of _—The United States, Britain, and the Ural Mountains, including |France have the equivalent of one 22 in East Germany. Fifteen 20 to thou| skimpy division in West Berlin. sand of her aircraft are west of the _ allied forces are 110 miles Urals. There are 65 satellite di|from. the . North Atlantic Treaty Or- visions | of ‘Varying degrees of reSanization’s forward line. liability— President Eisenhower, of course, Americar sources say Russia hag knew. all this when he declared that hundreds of missiles in the 700- | the Allies will not surrender any of mile-plus range and has recently their treaty rights in Berlin.. moved shorter range artillery-type | the missiles into the satellites. Russia claims to have intercontinental. bal- ° recently told reporters that West’ s tactical position in the listie missiles. She has 4,500,000 men under arms and the satellites an additional Le le. Jt is much worse than , during the Soviet blockade|°500,000. WEST | in in the 1940s. old German capital i is about as poor —— | The Atlantic Alanee has about | as Many men under arms, if. you -|count all those in the United States and deployed. around | _the | —aLive | world. | _ ; Gen. Lauris Norsied. Supreme. Ale. ‘lied -Commander in Europe, “Wass more than one million men ‘in fi |immediate forces. He has abot aC {50 divisions from Norway to Turt key, 5,500 to 6,000 aircraft and, in el- wartime, the Navy’s 6th Fleet in the | Mediterranean. But he has only 22 of the 30 divi- |Sions that he considers to be criti|eally needed in Central Europe. Increasing | from numbers of missiles, short-range Honest Johns to} .|1,500-mile range ballistic types are being in|not as would deployed by fast like. as the West -but| military leaders | Nuclear weapons are being, or soon will be, stored under American control im a number of coun- | tries for use of NATO forces in war- time.. _ MISSION OF “SHIELD” , | The mission of the NATO | forces is this: “chieiee To make the. price of limited | aggression anywhere on the 4,000mile front too great to pay, to help deter general war, and to hold! |the line in event of a general at- | tack until the “sword” of nuclear retaliation can destroy the enemy. The sword consists of the towering strength of the U:S. Strategic | Air Command, the smaller but. powerful British Bomber Com- mand, and certain U.S. Naval units. - “We now depend on these taliatory orces,’ ’ says a spok from Norstad, ‘‘to an ext ; cannot be overstated.’ ue , re- eT ; “Oe x See oe POSITION POOR He |
