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William Mitchell, the Brigadier General who talked himself down to the rank of Colonel and out of the Army by criticizing the War and Navy Departments' post-War air policies, this week began fresh repetition of his criticisms, in current issues of Aeronautics* and Liberty...
...many a lover of word-fights may have forgotten, Col. Mitchell has clamored for almost a decade for a Department of Aeronautics separate from the War and Navy Departments. His experiences during the War and immediately after persuaded him of the need. He was the first U. S. officer to fly over the German lines, was chief of the U. S. air service for the group of armies in the Argonne offensive, and shared in practically all the major A. E. F. operations. He was in more engagements than any other U. S. officer. For War and prior Army service...
...With the appointment of the three new undersecretaries in the War, Navy and Commerce Departments, a great cry was made all over the country through Coolidge's controlled press that air power was being assisted and developed. Nothing of the kind was done, as it was still made the tail of the dog. It was not given a separate department in the Government under a cabinet member. This must be done eventually, so the sooner we create it the better...
There was a great folding of silk pajamas and brushing of well cut suits in Paris last week. John Pierpont Morgan, mightiest of U. S. bankers, was leaving town. The nations which fought the World War had agreed at last how the staggering costs and damages were to be paid by the loser Germany. Mr. Morgan's financial prestige and wisdom were no longer required. He gave power-of-attorney to his partner and alternate, Thomas W. Lamont, and boarded the Mauretania for home...
...remained only the affixing of the delegates' signatures and its submission to and (presumably) ratification by the governments of England, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the U. S. and Germany. The final obstacle-the Belgian franc business-seemed to have disappeared when Germany solemnly pledged herself to settle the War currency question before Sept.1, when the Young Plan becomes effective...