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...House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success...
Last week Secretary of War Patterson, Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower and A.A.F. Boss Spaatz unrolled the figures again. By July 1 this year, the Army will need 1,550,000 men for occupation forces, home defense and replacements. Within a year it will be cut to 1,070,000-a figure it must maintain until the need for occupation is over. Of the total Army strength, the Air Forces want...
...maintain an Army of that size, Patterson insisted, continuation of the draft was an absolute necessity. Demobilization had already drained off most of the old Army. He had promised to release all drafted men as they reached two years' service, beginning June 30. Though the total of volunteers had passed the 600,000 mark, the monthly rate was beginning to fall off. Without the spur of the draft, it would probably drop sharply. The Army could not afford to gamble; it needed the assurance of a constant manpower reservoir...
...Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques...
...another publisher. If he were a couple of feet shorter, he would be like Roy Howard. If he had a couple of million more, he would be like Ogden Reid, and if he had the gout, he would be like [the New York Daily News's Captain Joe] Patterson, and each of them thinks he is a Joseph Pulitzer...