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Price echoed the views of Representatives Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the committee, and Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex), another key member. He explained that the major opposition to the draft came from Congressmen who were afraid of a peacetime...
...Vinson said over the weekend that the Administration would doubtless ask for an extension on the ground that the law served as a spur to voluntary enlistment. "But they haven't got a chance in the world of getting it," he said. "There is no justification...
Reprisal? The effects of the President's decision rumbled off much farther than the Pentagon Building. He was immediately accused-most heatedly by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson-of taking reprisals against Denfeld for his testimony before the committee, though witnesses had been guaranteed safe conduct by Louis Johnson himself. Others complained that in the summary manner of firing, the Admiral had been unnecessarily humiliated...
There was undoubtedly truth in both charges. But neither Vinson, Denfeld nor any other Admiral should have been surprised. The Navy's rebels had gone too far, and their topmost man, Admiral Denfeld himself, had taken a stand which clearly disqualified him to work any longer with his civilian superiors and his opposite numbers in the Army and Air Force. The rebels had ruthlessly and violently attacked, not only the Air Force and its professional integrity but also the whole Joint Chiefs of Staff concept of strategy. They had plainly implied that they would remain insubordinate to the bitter...
...rushed forward to wring his hand. "Admiral Denfeld," said Missouri's Navy-minded Dewey Short admiringly, "I don't know what you had for lunch, but brother, it was a correct diet. There will be a lot of starch added to the shirts of the Navy." Chairman Vinson added gravely: "You have rendered a distinct service by putting the chips on the table...