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Even tougher talk came from Witness No. 2. Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, one of MacArthur's top airmen in World War II and boss of U.S. air defense from 1949 until he retired last summer. He pleaded for the fastest possible creation of a minimum air force: an atomic "strike force" ready to take off on retaliatory raids within a few hours after an attack on the U.S.; enough transports to service the strike force at overseas bases, and fighters to escort the bombers on their missions; at least 30 wings of all-weather jet fighters to intercept...
...ground troops fighting in Korea were not likely to think much of that last suggestion. But Whitehead had come prepared to make his argument sink in. As of last July, he said, the U.S. mainland was defended against atomic attack by fewer than 100 all-weather fighters, which could not have destroyed more than 10% to 15% of a force attacking in daylight. At night, or during instrument conditions, U.S. interceptors would have shot down less than 5%. A well-executed surprise atomic air attack on the U.S. would have succeeded, said Whitehead, "beyond the fondest hope of the [enemy...
Euclid & God. Even as a boy, he disliked rules. He mastered geometry at eleven, but resented having to accept the axioms of Euclid. Years later, this spark of rebellion touched off an explosive book, Principia Mathematica, in which he and the late great Alfred North Whitehead treated mathematics as "a branch of logic," and armed philosophers with a complex thinking tool known as "symbolic logic...
...Marine Corps second lieutenant, Whitehead is at present serving in Gibraltar. He will presumably make use of his Oxford scholarship after his discharge...
George J. W. Goodman '32 of Newton, Neil J. Smelser '52 of Phoenix, Arizona and Adams House and William V. Whitehead '50 of Brookline will each be eligible for two years free study in any subjects they choose at Oxford University beginning in October, 1932. Of the other winners, four represent Princeton, three Yale...