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What was originally a worthless minority of four anti-Plan E votes on the City Council now looms as the strongest group. The unexpected fratricide among reformists has proved a strategic godsend to the men intent on discrediting Plan E and proportional representation in the eyes of the electorate. PR forces a candidate before the entire city for re-election instead of allowing him the relative security of a small well-organized Ward. Such a plan constitutes a direct menace to professional politicos like Sullivan, Foley, Sennott, and Neville. Their political futures demand an inoperative government and a continuing stalemate...
Professor Friedrich declared that the bill "is not only worthless in combatting Comunism" but even contributes to the spread of the doctrine, by limiting the value of criticism levelled at it. This thought control, he declared, makes the bill pro-Communist...
...Worthless, Valueless. The airmen's objections were practical. They came down to the fact that there is a limit to what can be spent on national defense. It would cost many millions to set up U.M.T. Harry Truman figured on $400 million just to get it started. This was probably a ridiculously low estimate. Some Air Force officers figured that it would cost close to $400 million to set up Air Force training stations alone. The cost of operating U.M.T. in the three services would run anywhere from $1.75 billion to $3 billion a year...
...airmen contended that those trained under U.M.T. would be practically worthless as combatants in a technological war. To this, many a Ground Force and Navy officer would say amen. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, although he has never said so publicly, has been quoted as saying that the six-month basic training period contemplated under U.M.T. would be valuable chiefly as a character and health builder; that as training for a modern war it would be largely valueless. The airmen contended that the money, time and effort could much better be spent on combat aircraft and in the training...
William Yandell Eliott, professor of Government, refused last night to discuss charges made last week by the Communist Daily Worker that he was the power behind the scene in American foreign policy, dismissing the attack as a "worthless and ridiculous bit of journalistic trash...