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THE WHITE FALCON
Saturday, May 4, 1957
THE WHITE FALCON
Volume 7 Number 9
HEADQUARTERS, ICELAND DEFENSE FORCE
Brig- Gen John W. White, USAF
Joint Commander
The WHITE FALCON is an official Armed Forces newspaper published bi-weekly at
Keflavik Airport, Iceland, by and for the Army, Navy and Air Force personnel of the Ice-
land Defense Force. The WHITE FALCON receives AFPS material. AFPS material appear-
ing herein will not be reprinted without written permission of the Armed Forces Press
Service, Room 11,25 Fisk Bldg., 250 West 57th st., New York 19, N. Y. Views and opinions
expressed herein are not necessarily those of the Department of Defense.
Deadline for copy: 0900 hours Monday. Telephone number: .’,150.
Staff
Supervising Officer ....... Colonel Ragnar Stefansson, USAF.
Editor....................... M/Sgt Don W. Rowland, USAF.
Associate Editor ................. T/Sgt Bill Turner, USAF.
Staff Writers A/1C Scotty Fuller, USAF, Pfc R. S. Hoermann, USA.
Administrative Assistant ...... S/Sgt W. B. D. Jones, USAF.
Staff Photographer ............... Sp/3 Darwin Krall, USA.
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Chaplains Column
By Chaplain Edward C. Johnson
It is hard to believe, but it is true that the mighty New York
Police Force has one great abiding fear. Yes, there is one thing
that every member of New York’s finest fears and dreads. It is not
the gunman or the hood, the bank robber or safecracker. They have
ways of dealing with them. What they fear most of all is a great
crowd of people out of control.
There is not a man on active duty from the traffic cop on the
corner to the Police Commissioner, who does not breathe a sigh of
relief when the tremendous crowds that gather in Times Square for
New Years’ Eve or election night or some similar event, disperse
and go quietly home. For the experienced officer knows that “mob
psychology” is something real. Once panic breaks out in a crowd of
people, no one can tell how or where it will end.
The sharp officer astride his well—trained and meticulously
groomed horse who pushes through the crowd is not there for show.
Both the horse and the rider have a job to do, to avert or cut off
an incipient stampede.
Man is tremendously influenced by the actions of his fellow men.
The bad example of his neighbor can pull him down; the good ex-
ample lift him up. Consequently everybody should remember that all
his actions are not being performed in a vacuum or on the moon,
but they have an effect on someone around him, for good or for evil.
People may never hear or long heed the things we say, but every-
thing we do may be a sermon or may be a blight for those who see it.
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KDF First Shirt
Takes Six More
M/Sgt Edward F. Wallace,
First Sergeant, IDF Headquarters
Detachment, was sworn in last
Wednesday for another six years
in the U.S. Army. He has 12 years
service and next week he will com-
plete one year in Iceland.
Prior to his assignment here,
he was First Sergeant of the
Separation Center at Fort Dix,
New Jersey.
First ‘Airman’ Out
By Mid-May
Washington (AFPS) — “The
Airman” magazine will be put
ip circulation in mid-May.
The new publication will be
distributed free for all mem-
bers of the Air Force, Air Re-
serve Training and Air Na-
tional Guard units, with a
monthly printing of one copy
for each 10 airmen.
NATO
Its Aims and Methods
By T/Sgt Bill Turner
(Third and last in a series printed to commemorate the anniversary
of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949).
The success or failure of any plan depends, to a large degree,
on the basic reasons for the plan’s initial inception. If the plan was
conceived for reasons that are to benefit humanity then man, through
sheer logic, will approve that plan. If we go one step further and
base our organization on the preservation of man’s intrinsic right to
freedom of thought and action then we not only gain the endorse-
ment of the individual but also his wholehearted support.
NATO, as we have seen, is founded on such convictions. Hence,
NATO must succeed.
But what, exactly, are the goals or aims of NATO? What lies
behind each decision, whether earth-shaking or relatively minor? Be-
low will be listed four of these goals; but before we can consider
them we must recall the primary reason for the birth of NATO, we
must glance back over these past eight years and recollect the all-
important job that NATO has accomplished successfully. We must
do this because that primary reason, that all-important job, remains
as the base upon which NATO will continue to build and become
stronger.
NATO owes its very existence to the member nations’ search for
something that would serve as a DETERRENT TO WAR. During
its existence NATO has accomplished that mission—it has DETER
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Behind the
Mike
By A/2C Jim Brunelle
Someone asked us how old the
transcribed programs are when
they’re aired. Well, allowing time
for AFRS in Los Angeles to re-
cut them, filtering out commer-
cials and sponsor references from
the original show, more time to
package, process and mail a week’s
unit and even more time while
TFK schedules the programs, the
newest shows (e.g., Ed Sullivan)
are about three months old. Some
RED WAR. Hence, the most prominent of NATO’s aims will be the shows, like Fred Robbins record
same, to DETER WAR.
With the future deterrence of war as a background we can now
look at the secondary reasons for the continuation of NATO. These
aims are:
1) FREEDOM. To maintain this common heritage by establish-
ing and enforcing laws based on equitable and impartial tenets, re-
specting always the dignity of the individual.
2) PEACE. To attain a peaceful co-existence between all the na-
tions of the world, regardless of their form of government—so long
as those nations do not contemplate infringment on the rights of
other governments.
3) SOCIAL PROGRESS. To maintain conditions of prosperity;
to raise standards of living, health and culture, and to pass on to
future generations the finest of this growth.
4) SECURITY. To collectively defend these principles; giving
any nation or group a fair opportunity to improve them, but serving
as a deterrent to that group or nation whose methods include war as
an instrument of national policy.
These are the goals of NATO.
They ai'e lofty, to he sure. But
they are good, logical, feasible
goals . . . ones that are deserv-
ing of sacrifice.
They lead citizens of all NATO
countries—from the smallest indi-
vidual farmer to the largest cor-
poration—to contribute more in
the form of taxes. They prompt
everyone—from the laboring man
to the leading scientist—to exert
that extra measure of energy
which may mean the difference
between success or failure. They
stand behind the soldier, sailor
or airman, uprooted from his home
spending long, lonely months at
isolated commands. These sacri-
fices, though often questioned, are
trivial in comparison to the results
they will bring.
So much for the aims of NATO.
Let us turn to the methods by
which NATO seeks to achieve
these ends. Quoting directly from
the articles that comprise the
North Atlantic Treaty of 1949,
they are:
1) To settle any international
dispute in which they may be in-
volved by peaceful means in such
a manner that international peace
and security and justice are not
endangered, and to refrain in their
international relations from the
threat or use of force in any
manner inconsistent with the pur-
poses of the United Nations. (Ar-
ticle 1).
2) To develop peaceful and
friendly international relations by
strengthening their free institu-
tions, by bringing about a better
understanding of the principles
upon which these institutions are
founded, and by promoting condi-
tions of stability and well-being
To eliminate conflict in their in-
ternational economic policies and
to encourage economic collabora-
tion between any or all of them
(Article 2).
3) To agree that an armed at-
tack against one or more of them
in Europe or North America shall
be considered an attack against
them all; and, if such an armed
attack occurs . . . they agree to
take such action as deemed ne-
cessary, including the use of armed
force, to restore and maintain the
security of the North Atlantic
area. Such measures shall be ter-
minated when* the Security Coun-
cil has taken the measures ne-
cessary to restore and maintain
international peace and security.
And so we conclude our salute
to the eighth anniversary of the
signing of the North Atlantic
Treaty. We have made an attempt
to show why NATO was formed,
what it has done and what it
hopes to do. Time, alone, will tell
whether NATO succeeds but one
thing is certain—that success will
depend upon cooperation and since
You are NATO (for it is your
peace and your freedom that
NATO seeks to guarantee) sup-
port it to the best of your indi-
vidual ability.
show, may be as old as two years.
The average is between three and
six months.
Beats us how Billboard figures
out its weekly Honor Roll of Hits.
It’s supposed to be determined ac-
cording to record and sheet sales,
disc jockey and juke box perfor-
mances. The survey of the week
ending April 10 lists “Butterfly”,
“All Shook Up” and “Round and
Round” as the top three. We
checked over the other charts
mentioned and applied a little ra-
pid math. Our figures exactly re-
verse that order. Makes a man
doubt his own ability to add two
and two, Perhaps a little cal-
culus . . .
New Shows: THE NEW YORK-
ERS, a pleasant little trio replaces
Bing Crosby at 5:45 p.m. week-
days . . . EBONY AND IVORY,
“at ease” piano arrangements will
be heard at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
No thumbnail biography this
week. We’ve done everybody. We
have enough short timers (includ-
ing myself) to indicate an incom-
ing of new personnel shortly, so
stand by for more biogs.
On the Record: Irving Berlin
celebrates his 69th birthday on
May 11 . . . Top song five years
ago this week was Kay Starr’s
“Wheel of Fortune”, ten years
ago it was Ted Weems’ “Hear-
taches” . . . Stan Freburg’s latest
is a take-off on Belafonte’s “Day-
O” . . . Disc jockey Martin Block
(2:00 p.m. daily) just signed a
five-year contract with WABC for
a million dollars.
Well, Chris Albertson’s done it
again. He introduced a record the
other night by “the dovely Miss
Pat Boone.”
In Irish Booster for Armed Forces Day
Maureen
O’Hara, the love-
ly Irish lass
who’s seen here
lending her
Gaelic charm to
an Armed Forces
Day poster, has
two important
10th anniversaries
marked on her
calendar.
There’s the
10th annual
Armed Forces day
May 18.
She’ll be joined
in this observ-
ance by fellow
America ns and
mil tary units.
There’s also the
10th annversary
of her American
citizenship.