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As for America's own U.S. military machine, Forrestal said it badly needed cranking up. True, the U.S. did hold a "fair margin of superiority" on virtually every technical weapon. But even the atom bomb was neither sufficient to prevent attack, nor enough to insure victory after attack. Any...
In a 65,000-word message to the President, Forrestal urged top priority for legislation which would permit the President to send "military assistance" anywhere overseas. Such authority to act without reference back to Congress should be so general that arms (but not men) could be sent to any country...
Congress hadn't given him enough authority to knock heads together, Forrestal said. Congress had empowered him only to set "general policies and programs," and to exercise "general direction, authority and control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal...
* For a "technical" aspect of the Forrestal report see SCIENCE.
Should the press submit to voluntary censorship in peacetime? When Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal put the question to a committee of press, radio and newsreel representatives last spring (TIME, March 15), he got a short no. The responsibility for keeping military secrets, the committee decided, rested on the armed...