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TIME [Nov. 5] says that Admiral Ernie King sailed into the caucus room port "with all his guns blazing...
From where I sat the Admiral wore in with hatches battened for a gale, carrying a reefed mainsail. He dropped a kedge at the caucus room door, and rode up into the eye of a gentle breeze, and backed his mainsail. There he delivered a walking ladder of ranging shots, reloaded and waited for the enemy to reply. The shells of the unified command in Europe and the Pacific Ocean areas were laid into his rigging...
...morning last week big, bluff Senator Alben Barkley rose in the caucus room of the Senate Office Building and rapped for order. Spectators filled the hall to the corners. Senator Barkley asked for absolute quiet; the acoustics are notoriously bad. The Congressional commit tee's investigation of Pearl Harbor had begun: in the days & weeks to follow, history would be dragged up from the dark corners, dusted off and laid out on the committee table for the world to read...
...economy-minded Congressmen within earshot, Ike Eisenhower made a "flash guess" that a military establishment under a single command could be maintained with 25% fewer men than under divided command. "With integration we can buy more security for less money." When he was through, eager listeners in the Senate caucus room scrambled for transcripts of his statement...
...first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary...