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When the decision was made to gear the U.S. military establishment to atomic necessity, John A. Hannah, Assistant Defense Secretary for Manpower, who is on leave as president of Michigan State College, was assigned to head a committee studying the National Guard system and to submit his findings to the National Security Council by April 1-but he has already fired without waiting to see the whites of the militiamen's eyes...
...Role." In a mid-January speech at Lansing, Mich., Hannah said: "Can you imagine Michigan consenting to have its National Guard units sent away if Detroit and Lansing and Grand Rapids were under aerial bombardment? Do you think the police and other public-safety organizations could handle the situation under attack without the National Guard to provide the disciplined leadership and control to handle casualties, open lines of communication, protect and care for the homeless, maintain order and restore civilian production? . . . Indeed, the National Guard has accepted a new role. Under a program announced recently, the Guard will assume...
...mere thought of the National Guard serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really warmed...
This week Walsh continued the fray with a lengthy speech at a Santa Fe meeting of the Adjutants General Association, a National Guard ally. Cried he: "I predict we will experience some distinctly unpleasant times in the not too distant future ... It behooves us to keep our powder dry." Hannah was on hand too, but was clearly in enemy territory. The battle was joined, and Hannah may soon test an old article of Pentagon faith-not necessarily true-that when the National Guard Association cracks the whip, Congress obediently jumps...
McNamara's boss, General John Hershey, Director of Selective Service gets his quotas direct from Hannah. Inasmuch as Hannah feels that the Army will continue to gobble up most of next year's draft eligibles, and since the current Bill permits Selective Service through June 30, 1955, the draft seems sure to run at least until then...