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...that the freedom they have won is a freedom confined to a few fortunate people or to a few favored nations." Walter Nash understood that many difficulties-including the two-war premise which stymied the United Nations as a global body-lay between any plan and an effective United Command. Said he: "We have a long way to go. But there's another war looming unless we start our journey now. And I suggest we start...
...pilots to fly those planes was another matter. The Army Air Forces vowed that its training program was geared to match the plane output. But the factories were now outstripping the schools. Planes were built faster than the Flying Training Command could create crews...
Average wait: three months. The 60-odd schooling fields of the Flying Training Command could not absorb the candidates as fast as they were needed or as fast as they applied...
Added headaches for the harried Training Command are: 1) a shortage of flight instructors; 2) a tardy start on a campaign for glider pilots; 3) a growing need of liaison and scout pilots by the ground forces (infantry, artillery, tank outfits...
This was a big concession by the incredibly tough Alaskan censorship. Under the rules concocted by the Alaska Defense Command, no news of their front-yard Battle of the Aleutians was printed for Alaskans until 48 hours after it appeared in the States. When Vice President Wallace had spoken of the imminent danger of an attack on Alaska, Army Signal Corps censors at Seattle refused to let the Alaskan press report...