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Fair to Foul. In Washington, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King and other Navymen wondered about the effect on the U.S. public of this stirring performance and great publicity show. An epoch was ended. As any sailor knows, every fair wind sooner or later blows foul. In the aftermath of every major war which the U.S. has waged in the past 80 years, public sympathy has veered; in the fog of na tional policy, overtaken by its own rust, the Navy has all but foundered...
This time, Navymen wet their fingers and gazed anxiously aloft. The clamor for immediate demobilization and the complaints of reserves whistled through the rigging. The drive to merge the services (see below) might blow either fair or foul. The Navy no longer had such a great and loving friend in the White House as a Roosevelt (T. or F.D.). Onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman went out of his way last week to give the men in blue and gold the back of his hand. Praising General of the Army George Marshall the President wisecracked: "He [Marshall] succeeded in getting the Navy...
...Army Board's findings, especially, had scared up some big game, raised some big issues. Army & Navymen joined generally in emotions ranging from anger to regret that able George Marshall had been hit in the fire, even though his distinguished record could stand it. But in general they parted on another, more important issue...
...Navymen in Washington doubt there were that many planes...
...Navy is heading for a postwar manpower problem of unprecedented magnitude. To man the postwar fleet, it will need a force estimated by hopeful Navymen at some five times its greatest previous peacetime complement. The logical place to get the force is from the fleets' 2,862,971 war-trained Reserves, officers and men, who now comprise 84.5% of the entire Navy...