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General Eisenhower has a new job. On February 11 President Truman borrowed him from Columbia, and brought him back to Washington for what may turn out to be one of the General's most difficult assignments. The President designated Eisenhower to act as temporary head of the Joint Chiefs of...
The present problem of unifying the services dates from the National Security Act of 1947 which set them up "... under civilian control ... not for merger, but for integration into an efficient team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang...
Ike's title would make him "principal military adviser" to the President* and to Secretary of Defense Forrestal. More important, he would also sit in as acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected...
. . . Secretary Forrestal is one man in the present administration who ... is not swayed by the forever complaining minorities who seem to give their allegiance more to Soviet Russia and Palestine than to their own country. As for this "Wall Street" name-calling, the columnists should be advised that this is...
In Washington, Defense Secretary James Forrestal was thinking the same way. Said Forrestal: "A continuing burden of military armaments upon this country might produce precisely that result which some of our contemporaries would like to see. It would produce an economic collapse which would so wreck this country as to...