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Transfer, Please. In Glasgow, Scotland, John 'Symington quit his job as a streetcar conductor to join the units being formed for service in Korea because "I don't think the North Koreans can be any more offensive than some of the Glasgow public...
...single U.S. city in shape to meet atomic attack, even if Joe Stalin mailed out a week's notice. Harry Truman's National Security Resources Board had been sitting on civil defense for 17 months, had yet to hatch anything. Its new director, energetic Stuart Symington, promised action by early September. But like Tom Dewey, the U.S. was beginning to wonder if that was soon enough...
...Stuart Symington, chief of economic mobilization, told a Senate committee...
...Members of the international Communist movement will not hesitate to shoot any who stand in their way ... It is now clear that the military power of these Communists is organized, very great and growing rapidly." If the U.S. is to survive, said Symington, then the President's emergency recommendations (see below) represent the minimum requirements...
...September that the Russians had an Abomb. No one has even decided whether cities, states or Federal Government should pay for staffs and equipment. No city in the U.S. is ready for an A-bomb attack-though test programs are under way for Washington, D.C., Chicago and Seattle. Warned_Symington in Detroit last week...