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...nation's wartime civilian chiefs have begun their exodus from Washington. Last week Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy, policy handler for the War Department and its liaison man with the State Department, stepped out. A few days later the resignation of his colleague, Assistant Secretary for Air Robert Abercrombie Lovett, landed on the White House desk...
Japanese troops, having played out their last forlorn role, were about to retire to concentration camps. Their commander, General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between his own stranded army and Chinese headquarters. There were 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers below the Great Wall in China when the war ended-far more than U.S. estimates before V-J day. The last 400,000 troops, who at Chungking's direction have policed railroads and held approaches...
Like Patterson, Marshall was careful to emphasize that the War Department was proposing a merger of equals; there was no suggestion that the Navy should be swallowed by the Army. They also insisted that the air forces (except liaison and scouting craft) should become the third, co-equal branch...
Late Abed. Franklin Roosevelt had used party whips and liaison men like Tommy Corcoran to put White House heat on the legislators. Harry Truman was the first President to turn his top policy men openly to such a task. He gave notice that he wanted action-reports, at once, on the status of the work assigned. Moreover, he wanted no shirking; he ordered twice-a-month progress reports...
...Brodie system" was designed for light liaison planes. The masts and cables would be hard for an enemy to spot from the air and could be set up quickly in tough terrain. In peacetime, the gadget may well prove useful in mountainous jungles or swampy country where clearing a landing strip is too difficult or too expensive...