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¶ It will now start on Nov. 15. ¶ The committee will not waste time junketing to Pearl Harbor. ¶ All Army & Navy personnel will be free to testify without any fear of subsequent court-martial or detriment to their future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell...
¶ The U.S. will use its military juggernaut to keep peace and defend itself. (Said Navy Secretary Forrestal: the U.S. will hold its Navy so that others will know that "we have not gone back to bed.")
Inviting Attention. The Navy's star witness, able Secretary Jim Forrestal, in vited the committee's attention to an alternative plan drawn for him by Ferdinand Eberstadt (investment banker and onetime vice chairman of WPB).
At this point the committee began to ask questions. Would this plan preserve the unity of action the services had worked out, laboriously and wastefully, during the war? How would the plan work, in smaller detail? Secretary Forrestal's answer was unsatisfactory. The details, he said, would have to...
Winter Stock. Henry I. Modell, president of the National Federation of Army and Navy Stores, appealed to Navy Secretary James Forrestal for more speed in releasing surplus merchandise. Modell had his eye on the Navy's estimated surplus of six million dungarees, nine million chambray shirts, 1.8 million utility...