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Will the plan give Harry Truman what he wants? How would his plan coordinate "the military and the remainder of the Government?" He admitted that "other steps" would have to be taken after the unified military establishment had been set up. Navymen claimed that the Navy's proposed National Security Council made those steps in one stride. But Harry Truman did not choose to pay even lip service to any Navy proposals...
...Navymen presented colored charts which purported to show how superior was the Navy's "National Security" plan (TIME, Nov. 5, Dec. 10) to the Army plan for out-&-out service merger. Navy Secretary Forrestal added the ill-tempered charge that the Army had "muzzled" its officers, forbidding them to express their views frankly...
...week's end the noise abated. Harry Truman, working out his solution, was getting ready at last to present it. Army-men, Navymen, Congressmen waited to see whether it, too, would be Solomonic-or a Missouri compromise...
...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Every aspect of the plan, Navymen will argue, emphasizes civilian control over government policies-foreign, military and domestic-and relegates military authority to a subordinate, executive role...