Word: unificationism
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Navy Secretary Forrestal has indicated that one way or another a compromise could be reached on unification of command. But on creation of an air department coequal with War and Navy-"I am not yet prepared to agree." Why not? Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz bluntly answered that question: the Navy...
Hero of the Pacific War, he was nevertheless a little suspect in Senators' eyes. The reason: a special committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appointed to survey merger opinion among generals and admirals, had reported Nimitz as favoring the idea on Dec. 8, 1944. The committee quoted him...
The first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world...
Report in the North. Unity in the west had hardly been established before stories of even more drastic unification came out of the Communist area of northern China. They were Communist stories, unconfirmed at week's end by Chiang or anybody else in Chungking. Their substance: while the Generalissimo...
1) the reports were distorted reflections of maneuvers for position by both sides. 2) Chiang and Mao were no closer on the fundamental issue-who should control the Communist armies and the Communist state-within-a-state-than they had been at the start. A.P. predicted that the talks would...