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...enable the military services and the other departments and agencies of the government to cooperate more effectively in matters involving the national security." The law designates as members the President, Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense and the chairman of the National Security Resources Board (Stuart Symington), and says that the President can add others. As regular members, Truman has added Mobilizer Charles Wilson, Advisers Averell Harriman and Sidney Souers, General Omar Bradley, Intelligence Chief Bedell Smith and the NSC's secretary, James S. Lay, 39, an alert administrator who before World War II was a sales manager...
...advisory capacity. To drive home his point, he scattered the Defense Act's mobilization powers among a dozen existing bureaus. Through the summer and fall, industrial mobilization crept along, hobbled by indecision and conflicting authority. The only cry for action came from the NSRB's Stuart Symington...
Alcan had offered to sell the U.S. Government 200,000 tons in the next three years at 16½? a lb., 1? below the U.S. domestic price. But U.S. producers protested so loudly that NSRB Boss Stuart Symington turned down the deal. U.S. producers declared that they could supply all the aluminum the Government needs, if given time and money to expand. Meanwhile, NPA has ordered a 35% cut for civilian use of aluminum by March...
...wasn't quite what some of the mobilizers already on the scene had in mind. Coordinator W. Stuart Symington had been quick to abdicate gracefully; it was he who had proposed Wilson in the first place, and he had also urged appointing Wilson on Wilson's terms though they would make Symington's job less important. But rumor flitted briefly through the capital that both Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and National Production Authority Boss William Henry Harrison were apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager...
Touch & Go. After Harry Truman telephoned him last week, Charlie Wilson slipped back to Washington by private plane, hustled from the airport to confer with Stu Symington. Then he checked in briefly with Secretary Sawyer. The mobilizers and stabilizers hoped he would not disturb their decentralized setup, until it became absolutely necessary to create a super-Office of Defense Mobilization. Said Wilson noncommittally: "I am in an exploratory frame of mind...