Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sidney Souers, 57, who every weekday morning at 9:30 briefs the President on the latest military and political intelligence, resigned as chief of the National Security Council, effective Jan. 15. A wartime Navy intelligence officer (and a rear admiral in the Naval Reserve), first chief of the postwar Central Intelligence system, and board chairman of a prospering linen supply company on the side, Souers stayed out of the headlines and close to the President's ear. Among his tasks: refereeing between the State Department and the defense establishment...
...year, the Nation had been trying to get Correspondent Andrew Roth into Japan. Roth, an ex-naval officer who was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of espionage conspiracy (TIME, June 18, 1945) and later cleared, had been accredited as a correspondent by the National Military Establishment. MacArthur then exercised his veto power to turn Roth down, gave no reason for his decision...
...years, the U.S. Navy has turned out plenty of fighting admirals but only one great scholar, 19th Century Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. His Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) was not only the nearest thing the Navy had ever had to a formal philosophy of naval power, it also won friends & influenced people in favor of a mighty U.S. fleet. Last week the U.S. Navy, which thinks it could use more friends, revealed that it was looking for some new Mahans...