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...Force demand for such a huge buildup is apt to touch off the loudest howl the Pentagon has heard since the row over the B-36-and principally from the same source: the Navy. But if Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg fails to convince his colleagues in the J.C.S., the Air Force is ready to take it up to Defense Secretary Marshall. There the Air Force expects...
...conferred with another top Eisenhower strategist, Pennsylvania's fiery redhead, Senator Jim Duff. One of Duff's jobs, among many others, is to keep Pennsylvania from going over to Ohio's Robert Taft, whom Duff supported in '48, after first trying to put over Arthur Vandenberg...
Proceedings began with dignity, with Senators in clean tropical suits looking urbane and trading splendid compliments. But there was an occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether...
...most important mission fell to General Hoyt Vandenberg, boss of the U.S. Air Force: finding enough air bases in Europe for NATO's air needs. At present, the U.S.'s major continental air bases are in Germany, only a few minutes' jet flying time from Communist Czechoslovakia. In case of war, the Red air force could strike damaging blows at these fields before the U.S. fighters could get into the air. Urgently needed: 100 airfields in Western Europe, most of them in France, farther away from the Red border. The French have promised to cooperate in building...
Meanwhile, Moscow was underlining the urgency of Hoyt Vandenberg's air-defense mission in Paris. The Russians were reported to have moved 500 MIG-15 jets and jet bombers into East Germany to replace their old, propeller-driven planes...