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"Bull Bill" had already received assurances from his good friend, Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, that his Agriculture subcommittee would do the investigating. Senator Gillette posed some pregnant questions: "Is there any truth to charges that the War Department has built muni tions plants which are not in use? Was...
As WPB Chief Donald Nelson frantically sought a way out of the mess, in stepped Missouri's Senator Harry Truman, announcing that his committee would investigate the entire problem this week. The Gillette investigation faded away.
This anonymous doggerel is a cry of honest frustration to many an officer snarled in the modern army's endless red tape. One such officer is Lieut. Colonel Francis E. Gillette, instructor in the Army's Command & General Staff School (Fort Leavenworth). Writing in the current issue of...
Colonel Gillette offers ample authority to support his anti-red-tape crusade. Said the Duke of Wellington about 1810: "If I attempt to answer the mass of futile correspondence that surrounds me, I should be debarred from all serious business of campaigning." Said a U.S. battalion commander in 1943: "We...
What to Do. As a clincher for his argument that something must be done about paper work, the colonel offers the case of the first sergeant on Bataan who was seriously wounded while crawling across a fire-swept area to take the morning report for his company commander to initial...