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...conference with legislative leaders last fortnight the President sat fuming while Congressmen asked sharp questions-and got limp answers from Pentagon officials-about interservice rivalries, overlapping missile programs and the whole organizational foul-up that makes it almost impossible to trace responsibility for any kind of failure in U.S. defense. No sooner had the congressional leaders left the White House than President Eisenhower called Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, into his office. His orders: find the right answers to the Pentagon's problems and put them into effect. Said the President: "You have a free hand...
First Things First. At no point did Gavin actually advocate a "general staff system"-which conjures up images of Prussianism to many a skittish Congressman-and to all devout Navymen. But that was precisely what he was urging, just as retired Air Force General James Doolittle had urged a fortnight before when appearing before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. In the minds of Jim Gavin and Jimmy Doolittle, and in the opinion of others among the nation's best military thinkers, Neil McElroy cannot even begin to solve the Pentagon's problems until he has a general staff, whatever...
Through the week there was no violence and there were no anti-Dutch incidents. In Djakarta Dutchmen lolled in rattan chairs on their verandas, purposefully ignoring the sump-oil insults smeared on their house walls a fortnight ago. To counteract charges that the Dutch were being physically hustled out of Java, the government refused to allow foreign airlines to lay on special planes, made clear that the ejection of the Dutch would be gradual and proper...
...Captured within a fortnight after landing on Long Island and Florida beaches, and tried in secret by seven U.S. generals, six were executed, two were imprisoned...
...Harry Oppenheimer, 49, was elected chairman of the boards of South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. (diamond), Anglo American Corp. (gold) and 14 other subsidiary companies to replace his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 9). A dark-mustached carbon copy of Sir Ernest, "Young Harry" learned the diamond business long before he went to Oxford to finish his education in 1931. He captained a company of Britain's Desert Rats against Rommel's troops in World War II, returned to Johannesburg in 1944 to take up a multitude...