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Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps confronted the possibility that it also might have to train and commission Negro pilots. This prospect (awful to the all-white corps) loomed after the Senate passed the $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill (TIME, March 13). Besides upping the authorized strength of the Air Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert...
Much distressed, the Air Corps quietly went to work on Capitol Hill to get Negro training killed or unload it on the Civil Aeronautics Authority before the rearmament bill is finally enacted...
...other rearmament jokers flustered the War Department last week: 1) Under an amendment sponsored by "Dear Alben" Barkley for C.I.O., a department head may not award any contracts for national defense to bidders whom he finds guilty of unfair labor practices. 2) New Hampshire's Republican Charles William Tobey got the Senate to limit profits on Army aircraft contracts to 10% (as in the Navy, where a similar limitation has been in effect since...
...minutes, without making a single amendment, the House last week passed a $499,857,936 supply bill for the War Department, including $50,000,000 for 565 of the planes called for in Franklin Roosevelt's emergency rearmament program...
Main question taken up last week in the arms debate in Commons was whether or not to double the Government's total borrowing allowance for rearmament from $2,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000. (Of this year's contemplated armament appropriation, $1,150,000,000 will be paid for by taxation, $1,750,000,000 by borrowing. Probably no higher British income taxes will be imposed.) Bigger borrowing won 432-to-5, the five dissenters being confirmed pacifists...