Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's Captain John G. Crommelin was apparently unaware that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
...word letter to Sherman, he renewed his charges against the "Army General Staff," which he said was "a small, powerful military group" using "the Prussian method" of hoodwinking their superiors, Congress and the people. Since under regulations no officer has a right to demand such a court-martial, Captain Crommelin's statement got no further than one day's headlines. "The case is closed," said Admiral Sherman, and that was that...
...letters which precipitated last month's revolt of the admirals, Captain John G. Crommelin broke a whole lockerful of Navy rules & regulations, was duly suspended from duty. Both Defense Secretary Louis Johnson and Navy Secretary Francis Matthews were hot for court-martialing him. Last week Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, decided on a smarter, less severe move...
...Airman Sherman called in Crommelin and announced his verdict. Crommelin was to get a stiff letter of reprimand, and would be transferred away forthwith from the pitfalls of Washington to San Francisco to serve as aviation officer on the staff of Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. That was all. But in the letter of reprimand, Crommelin was sternly told that his defiance of his superiors had "brought into question your fitness to exercise command or to occupy a position of trust and confidence...
...Navy. As the first up-from-the-cockpit air admiral ever to achieve the top job of the service, he was for keeping naval aviation strong, and said so. None of this meant that he would have any easy time in restoring harmony. But it made Navy hotheads reconsider: Sherman, an officer of sharp intellect and steely determination, would probably be able to argue the Navy's case, within the limits of unification, better than anyone in the service...