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Such grievances were embarrassing when the U.S. was applying for sole trusteeship over 48,000 other backward peoples on former mandated islands (TIME, Feb. 24). So Navy Secretary James Forrestal appointed a civilian commission* to advise what should be done.
Others had urged similar measures in the past, but for the first time the Navy was shamed into acquiescence. Secretary Forrestal promised to bat the commission's main recommendations up to Congress. All was not lost for the Navy. The island governors would still be Navy men.
It was no secret that they were privately counting on the Cabinet to furnish some of their best bets. One was Princeton-bred, Wall Street-trained Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who some day might be Secretary of National Defense. He was geographically perfect, ideologically sound, would add tone...
The conference, which will discuss the problem of trusteeship, will hear James V. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, present the official United States position in regard to its proposals on bases in the Pacific at the first session.
The depth of the cut was a surprise to some of the top Republican leaders. It might mean lopping some $2 billion from War and Navy Department budgets. Secretary Patterson said this would cripple the Army; Secretary Marshall said it would cripple the occupation of Germany and Japan; Secretary Forrestal...