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What in hell are we supposed to do, sit and wait for another "bloody monument to divided responsibility," as Pearl Harbor is described by Colonel Hugh J. Knerr [TIME, June 1], before the powers that be, in the Army & Navy, skip traditional arguing and realize the vulnerability their collaboration deems...
...Canal. "Much was made of the announcement that . . . Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews, who is perhaps our ablest exponent of air power, was given 'full responsibility' for the defense of the Panama Canal," writes Colonel Knerr. But "the Navy began trimming his wings. . . . The area around the Windward Islands . . . [ is ] obviously . . . [ an ] area that anyone responsible for the defense of the Canal would like to know is being patrolled most carefully. But General Andrews . . . has no authority to direct the patrolling. [ He ] supplies the heavy bombers . . . but they can't leave the ground . . . until directed...
Australia is in equal danger, writes Colonel Knerr, because the New Zealand sector has been taken away from General MacArthur. "[General MacArthur is in] 'supreme command,' . . . but actually is dependent on a naval man who doesn't take orders from him in a vital portion of his area...
Pearl Harbor is "a bloody monument to divided responsibility," says Colonel Knerr. But even now it is under a "threeway split command between Admiral Nimitz, the Navy district commander, and the Army airman Lieut. General Delos Emmons...
Simple solution to the political tug-of-war, says Colonel Knerr, is to give absolute authority to one man in each theater of war, have Congress establish a Department of National Defense...