After the war, he became President of Columbia University, then took leave to assume supreme command over the new NATO forces being assembled in 1951.

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Eisenhower, supreme command of Allied forces in Europe.

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Javier Solana, the so-called "High Representative" of the EU -- in effect its foreign policy supreme -- is working on the command structure and seeking to ease the worries of countries like Turkey, currently in NATO but not in the EU, that they will be squeezed out of future decisions on European security.

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