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...agreed or not, their diverse blueprints might yet be overlaid to make the plan of a structure which all would have to accept and support. As Senator Lister Hill (a merger advocate) told the Navy in a Solomonic judgment: "You could take that entire overall setup depicted in your chart and lay it over the Army plan without greatly disturbing either one." The Army would get the merger it has fought for; the Air Forces would get its equality; the Navy would get the overall coordination it has preached. Each would have to give up some things it had fought...
These were ground-gaining plays; the Army had had firm footing right along. It had a plan for merger (see chart); moreover, it was willing to accept any other plan which embodied the principles of unified command, plus an independent air force, for which even ground generals enthusiastically fought. Its mind was open to changes in detail. But the Navy had no adequate plan to replace or revise the present system of divided administration and command - aside from a report made by Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt over which Navymen themselves could not agree...
Such continued bickering would "do irreparable harm to the end which we all seek in the name of national security: the comradeship of all branches of the armed service. Once destroyed . . . that spirit cannot be revived by any legislative fiat or organizational chart...
...fever chart of Big Power relations looked better last week. In Germany especially, distrust subsided. The conquerors were learning more about one another. They seldom liked what they learned, but unpleasant knowledge was less harmful than febrile suspicion...
...thousand of the millions of U.S. citizens who listen to radio news commentaries every day got a closer look at the men they hear. Variety published a chart (headed "Gabbers' Dun & Bradstreet"), that listed the experience and political inclinations of 30 of radio's best-known commentators. For what it was worth, Variety also undertook to rate them in merit. Some of the findings...