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...recall was all the more baffling because, since the U.S. entered the war, China's very practical Foreign Minister T. V. Soong has also been stationed in Washington. Between them, they might have seemed to be diplomatically irresistible. If China was not getting its due, the fault might lie with the U.S. rather than with the Chinese Embassy. Dr. Hu's friends hoped that one persistent Washington rumor was true: that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big job for Dr. Hu in China...
...basic fault in war production to date has been that the Army & Navy have insisted on ordering everything, from battleships to pistol cartridges, that might prove useful in any kind of a war anywhere on the face of the earth. No Production Boss can balance production and avoid shortages unless he persuades-or forces-the military strategists to adopt a specific, limited program calling for specific types of material. Thus far Nelson has lost practically every round with the Army & Navy, which in general still insist on building everything at once. And this fundamental error overstrains production from raw materials...
...Chief fault of the U.S. citizen army remained its greenness. That could be mended only under fire. But war had brought valuable fruits to men in training: horne in on them at last was the realization that a soldier could die in battle, but he could live and win too if he had the know...
...time. WPB's program was sadly out of gear. Some of the nation's bright, shiny, proud new factories would never turn a wheel, for lack of raw materials; some might even have to be torn down for scrap. This was not Nelson's fault: the Army & Navy had contributed to the shortages by prodigal waste in specifications...
Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...