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Brass Knuckles. For two tempestuous years, close-cropped Bob Patterson was a central figure in the postwar upheaval in Pentagonia. His behind-the-scenes battle with Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal on unification of the armed forces was a brass-knuckled epic; Patterson wanted a total merger, with all services under a "Generalissimo." He raised a vigorous, though lonely, cry against disarmament in, 1946, helped generate the idea of the North Atlantic Treaty...
...free tactical management of the negotiations, so long as he stayed within broad lines of policy laid down in July. Recently, however, Washington has had a queasy feeling that Ridgway was being too stubborn, and Washington decided to intervene. Somewhere between Foggy Bottom and the thick-carpeted rookeries of Pentagonia, a plan to break the deadlock over a ceasefire line was cooked up and handed to Ridgway. Last week Ridgway's men served it up, piping hot, to the Reds in the rain-soaked tent at Panmunjom...
...started. U.M.T. is designed for cold war that has cooled off. It is the Pentagon's plan for keeping up a supply of trained men in a time when the nation does not want, or does not need, a large standing armed force. It is one answer to Pentagonia's recurring fear: What happens if the U.S. gets "all dressed up with no place...
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