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Appearing before them, W. (for William) Stuart Symington, the first Secretary of the first independent Air Force the U.S. has ever had, declared: "I do feel that the maintenance ... of peace in the world depends upon the strength of the United States." The commission agreed with him. The mere existence of a great U.S. force, in fact, might be a deterrent to a world aggressor. Peace might yet be achieved through the very instrument which had become the world's most destructive force: air power...
...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
After the war he ran the Atlantic division of the biggest airline of all-the Air Transport Command. For the last 16 months he has been the U.S. representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. He impressed Air Secretary Stu Symington and Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman by his negotiating of international air routes. They recommended him to Harry Truman...
...responsibility for all its armed forces on one Cabinet member's shoulders. (And thus, for the first time since 1913, the U.S. had a Cabinet of only nine members.) Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan and Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington were also sworn in (Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall had taken the oath nine weeks ago). Then Symington and Royall announced that they had agreed on more than 200 re-bracketings in plans to separate the Air Porce from the Army...
Secretary of the Air Forces, Socialite-Industrialist W. Stuart Symington, who left the presidency of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., became Surplus Property Administrator, then a top-notch Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the aggressive, Yale-trained son-in-law of New York's defense-conscious Representative James W. Wadsworth...