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Spain. Three years ago, U.S. military men led by the late Admiral Forrest Sherman convinced the Truman Administration that the U.S. must have air and naval bases in Spain in order to defend Europe. But in the ensuing horse-trading, the State Department failed to put enough pressure on Franco. Last January, under new management, the State Department began to move briskly. Last week the U.S. finally got its Spanish bases...
...July 1951, the late Admiral Forrest Sherman, then Chief of Naval Operations, slipped off quietly to Madrid to scout the chances for a military-aid pact with Spain which would give the U.S. the use of key Spanish naval and air bases. At that time Pentagon planners, worried at the poor progress of Western European defense, were anxious to insure a firm U.S. foothold behind the Pyrenees, in case the Russians should overrun Germany and France. In October 1951 with U.S. military and economic missions already active in Spain, Congress voted $100,000,000 for Spanish military and economic...
...highway to catch overloaders. (Even so, Georgia last month found that 5% of the trucks checked were guilty of overloading.) In Illinois, where truckers may file their own reports on ton-miles traveled, some boast openly of getting away with false reports to the state. In 1951 in Missouri, Forrest Smith, then governor, publicly stated that he understood money had changed hands on the floor of the legislature to defeat a bill to increase truck license fees...
...Scripps-Howard's crusading Cleveland Press, Veteran (51) Forrest Allen enjoys an earned reputation as a tenacious, digging reporter who makes life uncomfortable for errant public officials. For five years, picking away at the probate-court administration in Cuyahoga County, Allen has often broken off bits of news, but he never seemed to hit probate pay dirt. Last February, after he got a tip from young (29) Courthouse Reporter Sam Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association...
...quote the Confederate General Forrest as saying he would not have gone to war if he "hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers and other folks' niggers." For several years prior to General Forrest's death in 1879, I was his neighbor on Union Street in Memphis, and on several occasions I heard him say slavery was not the sole, or even the main, cause of the War Between the States. Less than 10% of the people of the South owned even one slave...