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There was one man in Washington who heard this warning siren loud & clear, but heard it as just one more note in an alarm from U.S. airmen all over the globe. From the reports on his broad mahogany desk in the Pentagon, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff, could see an air-power crisis closing on the U.S. at jet speed, while the U.S. was buzzing along in a B-29 frame of mind. "We are tempted to retreat from one fading hope to another," said Vandenberg two years ago, "without subjecting ourself to the discipline...
...Jobs for One. The one big plus on the U.S. side of this gloomy ledger is the long-range atomic striking power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. Because of the early U.S. lead in producing atomic bombs and atomic carriers, Hoyt Vandenberg could say, as recently as May 1951: "Today the United States is relatively safe from air attack." But it is a plus that is being rapidly dissipated...
...Because we are relatively safe from air attack today," Vandenberg continued, "an air force of a certain size can protect the U.S. and keep the balance of power in our favor. Today we have only one job that we would have to do if we got into a major war with Russia, and that is to lay waste the industrial potential of that country. Tomorrow, when they have developed their long-range air force and they have their atomic weapons, we have two jobs. We would have to put into first place the job of destroying the Russian air potential...
...Pentagon's first impulse was to throw the book at them. "A tempest in a teapot," snorted Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. But as the proportions of the trouble became apparent last week, Vandenberg flew out to Randolph for a first-hand checkup, ordered court martial proceedings dropped in the cases of two flyers...
Then both sides began to make claims. Ike Man Arthur H. Vandenberg Jr. said this was Ike's "greatest victory to date" because 70% of the 46 delegates were for him. Taft Chairman Charles H. King said more than 28 of the delegates would be for Taft when they got to Chicago. Most of the delegates refused to talk...