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Dumfounded Navy. The President's plan shocked the Navy into silence, shocked the Navy's good friend, Congressman Carl Vinson, into frenzied cries that it smacked "of the Kaiser, of Hitler and of Japanese militarism." The President's plan, with the notable addition of the three assistant secretaries for land, sea and air, was the same plan presented by Lieut. General Joseph Lawton ("Lightning") Collins* (TIME...
Jealous of their committee assignments and seniority, Congressmen fished up red herrings. Crusty Carl Vinson and Andrew May introduced legislation to set up a separate air force but drop the idea of a merger. It was a calculated effort. Where merger would cut in half the number of such committee places, the Vinson-May plan would increase them by half...
Even the long list of resolutions, which NAMsters, like all conventioneering Americans, love to pass, had a realistic ring. Example: when N.A.M. called for balancing the federal budget, it sensibly asked that it be done, not at once, but by 1947-48 (when Treasury Secretary Vinson thinks it can be) and at a reasonably liberal figure of $20 billion...
...battle was not over, by a long shot. The Navy has good and potent friends in Congress-particularly David I. Walsh in the Senate and Carl Vinson in the House. There is little chance that a bill can be reported out in time for a vote at this session; it will be early January before it reaches the floor. Much can happen before then...
Reading about "owlish Fred Vinson," "owlish Boss Crump," "hen-shaped Mayor LaGuardia," I am disturbed by an increasing ornithophobia. I now spend too much time peering into the faces of my friends for aviary symptoms. No owls, they. I have only succeeded in upsetting and alienating them. In a world fraught with crises, one prospect looms: one of these days they'll find me addressing a pigeon as "Your Honor...