Word: unificationism
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He spoke of the necessity for the Marshall Plan, of his hopes for real unification of the armed services. Did his renunciation of presidential aspirations apply to 1952? "I made no limitation on time," said Ike. What were the chances of war with Russia? "Not now, that's certain...
The nominal unification of the armed forces had not stilled interservice bitterness, and no one knew it better than Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. A month ago, he decided that the air transport services of the Air Force and the Navy should be merged. He bluntly ordered the respective Secretaries...
The Cost of Defense. It was scarcely the commissioners' job to settle that kind of technical debate. They had a right to expect that the JCS would have settled the fight among themselves and come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet...
They won. His father and grandfather who had ruled Italy since its unification in 1861 reigned over some 115,000 square miles. Victor Emmanuel, standing in the shadows, boosted it to 1,358,000.
It had taken a lot of doing. Neither President Harry Truman nor the new Air Force had forgiven or forgotten Radford's angry last-ditch opposition to unification of the armed services, which he carried on even after the Navy had agreed to the merger. Defense Secretary Forrestal and...