Word: unificationism
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The only prominent churchman not on hand was the one man chiefly responsible for bringing the unification about-Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Württemberg. The white-bearded grand old man of German Protestantism, who turned 80 last month, was too ill to attend.
As for America's own U.S. military machine, Forrestal said it badly needed cranking up. True, the U.S. did hold a "fair margin of superiority" on virtually every technical weapon. But even the atom bomb was neither sufficient to prevent attack, nor enough to insure victory after attack. Any...
Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal...
One guarded paragraph, worded in the Stiffest gobbledygook, set off a loud crackle of scientific and near-scientific speculation last week. In his report on unification of the services, Secretary of Defense Forrestal said:
* The committee was headed by New York Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, who helped draft the unification plan, and included, among consultants, Admirals Nimitz and King and Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz.