Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him as saying: "I favor a single civilian secretary of armed forces, with a complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today...
Bars and nightclubs are going strong. One is named the Radar, another the Atomic Cafe. There is one Jeep Cabaret already and another is opening soon. One pretty nice joint is called the Eventail Nightclub...
...weeks of waiting on London and Washington had ended at last in a joint policy pronouncement. Its principal points: 1) the U.S. for the first time will join with Britain in a Committee of Inquiry to review the Palestine problem; 2) the Committee will prepare a "permanent solution" (probably trusteeship under the United Nations Organization) for submission to UNO; 3) Palestine as the Jewish homeland will not be considered as the only possible solution for the problem of Jewish suffering...
General Doolittle was full-out for the merger of the services recently proposed by a special committe appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plan would 1) unify military command, 2) set up an independent air force. Reservist Doolittle, who does not have to worry about a postwar military career, went out of his way to blast the committee's one dissenting member, an "elderly retired Admiral" (67-year-old J. O. Richardson). Said Doolittle: "[His] is the type of retarded military thinking that held ... aviation back...
...Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value of this collaboration." Last fall, Bishop Dutoit was seized and sent to an internment camp. It was the first official action, after the liberation, against one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. ¶ Msgr. Francois Auvity, Bishop of Mende. He recently apologized in a pastoral letter for having advised French youths...