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Said Secretary Forrestal: "My feeling is best expressed in the words of Major General Julian Smith, who wrote to his wife after Tarawa, 'I can never again see a United States marine without experiencing a feeling of reverence.'"
It was the season for reports. This week, in the wake of Secretary Forrestal's report on the greatest navy in the world (TIME, Feb. 26), General Henry Arnold came out with a report on the world's greatest air force.
Nevertheless, the U.S.A.A.F., which has crossed the enemy lines 6,500,000 times to carry the fight to the enemy, has clearly demonstrated the dominant part air power has played in Allied victories. Secretary Forrestal ended his report with a warning that the nation's security depends on a...
So wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody...
The man directly responsible for the Navy's improved press relations in the Pacific is Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' able new press chief, Captain Harold B. ("Min") Miller, 42, an Annapolis-trained airman, torpedo expert, author (short stories in Cosmopolitan, American Magazine), former U.S. Naval Air Attache in...