European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mph the stars and stripes tuesday july 21 r 195paqe 2 g tit blab Amu Sirc _. .--.-.  -., Leahy Strong right hand for . And its leaders by United press International Fleet adm William Daniel Lea by who died monday epitomized the Navy tradition i have just begun to  Wien he retired from the Navy in 1939 after 46 years of service he was not through serving his country. In a very real sense he was just beginning. For just ahead of him was perhaps the most challenging role of his career. It was one in which he was to help shape without fanfare or a heroics the destiny of the nation in its darkest Days. That was his Post retirement role As statesman Diplomat and personal chief of staff to presidents Roose velt and Truman. With great foresight and astute Ness it was Leahy who both be lore and after his retirement from the Navy helped fashion the foundation for Victory in world War ii and for peace that followed. Leahy As chief of naval operations from 1937 to 1939, sold con Gress on the idea of building a big Navy. His salesmanship May have saved the nation from going under after the japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Fleet building program set in motion during Leahy s ten ure As chief of operations began paying dividends just in time. To Leahy history also will assign a Large share of the credit for Suc Cess in the first great american invasion of world War ii the thrust into North Africa in novem Ber 1942. As . Ambassador to Vichy France Leahy had helped smooth the invasion path nearly two years previously by quietly gathering and transmitting to Washington illuminating reports from All Over the French Empire. Subsequently As personal chief of staff to president Roosevelt Leahy helped blueprint the Victory in world War ii As confidante and adviser to the commander in chief at Washington and at All the big War Parley. As such he was Roosevelt s right hand Man at conferences with the British at Casablanca and Quebec and at Parley with Britain and Russia at Teheran and Yalta. As retirement approached Leahy found himself ordered by Rose velt his Long time Friend and com Mander in chief. To tackle the first of two Tough diplomatic assign mentsgo.vernor of puerto Rico. During Leahy s one year term As governor the hot headed nationalists who were causing the trouble in puerto Rico virtually faded out of the picture. When he was called away to perform a More urgent task for Roosevelt the puerto Picans erected a statue to the Best governor we Ever  president s More urgent Job was that of ambassador to Vichy. Leahy was sent there with a set of simple but challenging instructions make friends with vacillating old marshal Henri Petain and prolong american relations with Vichy As Long As possible. Perhaps the greatest proof of the Success of his Mission was the angry German charge after Leahy left that the Admiral not Petain had rim Vichy. But the Spry and forceful old Man whose Sharp aquiline features and shiny Bald head made him re semble a Bald Eagle responded once again to the needs of is country. Roosevelt appointed him to the newly created Post of chief of staff to the commander in chief of the armed forces. In that role Leahy served As a sort of assistant president. After Roosevelt died president Truman retained Leahy in his Post and leaned even More heavily than had his predecess6r-upon his experience and knowledge of both Domestic arid International affairs. Leahy resigned his last Post March 25, 1949. Leahy was born in Hampton la., May 6, 1875. Graduating from an Napolis in 1897, Leahy was assigned to the battleship Oregon to begin his Long naval career. Dec set to resume tests if talks fail says paper new York Cap the new York times reported in a Washington dispatch the atomic Energy commission is quietly preparing for immediate resumption of nuclear testing if the negotiations with the soviet Union for a ban  the dispatch said the commission is digging a number of tunnels at its Nevada testing site to permit further underground testing of atomic weapons. About $9 million will be spent on the Pacific proving ground at eniwetok to keep it in a state of readiness for atomic tests the to fro to title f paper said. The dispatch added j. J.1.1j.1.j. . Commission officials emphasize that these stand by preparations i Rockefeller new York up new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller has indicated he might be available for the Republican presidential nomination in 1960 under certain circumstances but that those circumstances had not yet devel oped. R o c k e f e 1 Ler said that vice president r i c h Ard m. Nixon still is. The leading contender for the Republican party nomination to succeed Eisenhower. The matter of his possible candidacy for the presidential nomination was brought up on a  when he was asked whether he was embarrassed Rockefeller president or displeased with discussions of the possibility. I m displeased Only in the sense that it is a subject that comes up and to which i be Given a simple and Frank answer. That i am not a candidate Rockefeller said. He was reminded that he once was quoted As saying that if the time came when he Felt he could be of real service in the presidency and that the people really wanted him in the office he might con Sider seeking it. Should the circumstances develop and they have not so far. In my opinion i might consider it Rockefeller said. At the two test Sites Are purely precautionary and do not signify any administration policy to re sume testing. ". The commission however wants to be in a position to resume test ing within a Short period if such a decision is made by the administration. Without maintenance work at the eniwetok test station which is subject to the corrosive effects of Salt Laden winds  estimated that it would take two or three years to restore the proving grounds for testing. The construction of tunnels at the Nevada test site will reduce by about a year the time required to resume underground testing of Small nuclear weapons. The commission s Steps Point up the fact that the administration in the months ahead will be con fronted increasingly with the vital question of whether to resume test ing if the negotiations continue to drag on or  the dispatch said that in the View of congressional and admin often at the Center of High level meetings adm William d. Leahy second from left was on hand in Quebec sept. 16, 1944, when Gen George c. Marshall president Roosevelt and Winston Churchill Laid plans for completing the War in Europe and bringing Quick defeat to Japan. A istra Tive officials old atomic talks the nine month at Geneva have achieved Little in obtaining agree ment on such Basic Points As inspection and veto Power. Don t break it Worcester mass. A b. Thomas Grant reported to police the theft of a single Hen s egg but no Ordinary egg. Grant explained it was sort of an heirloom which had been sitting under his barn stairs for 26 years. Governors agree East Berlin