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...teen-ager in Texas, John F. McMahon beat the drum and tootled the saxophone for the Volunteers of America, a U.S. offshoot of the Salvation Army that his father and mother had joined. Later he embarked on a promising career in an industrial catering business, but at 24 he decided that "there are things more important than money." He went back to the Volunteers...
...years since then, John McMahon has seen the social workers of the Volunteers change from a band of eager amateurs to an organization of highly trained, specialized men and women, working more and more closely with Government agencies. He approves of this pattern. Says he: "I can see the private agencies in the role of developing pilot programs and experimentation. Then, if the experiments prove successful, the Government would pick them up as it has done in the rehabilitation of the handicapped...
...John McMahon is in a position to push the trend. Last week, at 47, he was elected commander in chief of the Volunteers-the fourth in the organization's 62-year history, and the first who is not a member of the Booth family that founded...
...then pass the missiles on to any NATO country that i) wants them, and 2) in his opinion, has strategic need of them. Custody of the warheads will remain in the hands of SACEUR acting solely in his capacity as a U.S. officer. Thus no significant modification of the McMahon Act (which makes it illegal to put U.S. nuclear weapons in the hands of non-U.S. forces, or to share atomic military secrets with others) will be necessary, and the U.S. Government does not propose to ask Congress for any such modification in the foreseeable future...
Another objection was Dulles' stipulation that the U.S. (in view of the atom-denying McMahon Act) will keep the nuclear warheads "in the custody" of the U.S. Said the neutralist Le Monde, speaking for a considerable body of French opinion: "France cannot shelter on her soil arms of massive destruction which expose her to reprisals unless she is associated in the decision to use them...