Hastings Ismay
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| Born | Hastings Lionel Ismay 1887-06-21 Naini Tāl, India |
| Died | 17 December 1965 Wormington Grange, near, Stanton, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | UK |
| Parents | Stanley Ismay, Beatrice Read |
| Children | 3 |
| Spouse | Laura Kathleen Clegg |
Ex Secretary General of NATO. | |
Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, was a diplomat and general in the British Indian Army who was the first Secretary General of NATO and Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War.
Career
At the War Office, Ismay served as an intelligence officer with responsibility for the Middle East, Far East, the Americas, the Soviet Union, Poland and the Baltic States. Ismay enjoyed his work, and wrote that "intelligence is perhaps the most interesting of all Staff work."
Secretary General of NATO
At the Lisbon Conference, the members of NATO agreed to appoint a Secretary General who would direct the organisation's staff and serve as Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Council. The position was initially offered to Sir Oliver Franks, but he declined. As such, the allies scrambled to find someone else to take the position. Two weeks later, the countries agreed to ask Ismay to become Secretary General at the suggestion of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. {{#subobject: |Has superobject=Hastings Ismay |Has objectClass=Quotation |Has author=Hastings Ismay|+sep=, |Has text=“[NATO was created to] keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” |Is about=Hastings Ismay,NATO|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=1952 |Sourced from=NATO web site |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName=NATO web site |Has sourceURL=https://www.nato.int/cps/us/natohq/declassified_137930.htm
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“[NATO was created to] keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”
Hastings Ismay (1952) [1]
Bilderberg
In 1955 Der Spiegel named Hastings Ismay as a Bilderberg attendee.[2] Such publicity was not extended to subsequent NATO Secretaries General, almost all of whom were Bilderbergers.