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SECRET PAPERS LEAK! the headlines of London's Daily Express shrilled. U.S. SECURITY MEN CALLED IN! The "secret" papers were purported dispatches from Secretary of State Christian Herter and Secretary of the Army Wilbur Brucker to U.S. diplomats abroad. Presumably chary of publishing Western secrets, the Daily Express merely confided to its 4,130,069 readers that the papers in question "related to 'defection' of Russian nationals...
...carried out gently and gradually, not by separating families already overseas, but by sending fewer dependents abroad in the future. Many a serviceman grumbled that he would not re-enlist if he could not have his wife and children with him overseas, and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, playing his favorite role of Big Brother to Army dissidents, made things worse by warning of plunging morale. At a U.S. military colony near Paris, an Army officer's wife looked up from a children's party and said wistfully: "I just sent my husband's chauffeur...
...jobs in the Eisenhower Administration. Among them: Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, Flint Chevrolet dealer and ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee; Secretary of Defense (1953-57) Charles Wilson, ex-president of General Motors; Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller, Grand Rapids furniture manufacturer; Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker, onetime Michigan Governor (1931-32); Budget Director (1953-54) Joseph Dodge, Detroit banker...
...Their inability to agree "removes the professional military experts from any effective role in the decision process." Command of the armed services goes by default to "a combination of short-tenure appointed civilian secretaries supported by permanent, professionally unprepared, civil service civilians." (Medaris' extravagant exception: Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, a staunch defender of the Army missile program, "one of the best, if not the best Secretary of the Army ever...
...week's end the Army seemed to be retreating sidewise. In a press release titled "U.S. Army Aligns with Educators," Army Secretary Wilber Brucker announced the end of college classes in machine-gun dry firing and other venerable exercises, turned the time over to normal academic subjects. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates also seemed prepared to say out loud that no military requirement exists for compulsory ROTC. Under the circumstances, many a college may decide to make ROTC voluntary...