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...Council composed of the President as chairman and, as members, the chairman of a National Security Resources Board and the Secretaries of State, War, Navy-and Air, if Congress (said the Navy) really believes such a post should be created. The Council would control the machinery of national defense, maintain coordination between the agencies responsible for foreign and military policies, and be all-powerful in making decisions...
There was Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, who sat stony-faced, trying to maintain the comfortably superior attitude of an officer and a gentleman. His was the first sobering shock: the prosecution's account (compiled from German Navy archives) of his pre-Hitler (1932) efforts to rebuild the German Navy in defiance of Versailles. The record read: German submarines had been constructed in Spain and Finland; crews had been trained in The Netherlands...
...Commander said he expected that the College would revert to the old program quickly after the demobilization. "The wartime set-up was created primarily to conform to the draft regulations by actually enlisting the men in the navy. We couldn't maintain our civilian training policy in the face of Selective Service...
...make its best contribution to the common problems," King continued. Then he made a pointed comparison: "The United States, in exporting less than 5% of its meat supplies, may be able to manage its program through 'set aside' orders without rationing, and still be able to maintain fair distribution and fair prices. ... In Canada we could not, without rationing, export between 40 and 50% of our federally inspected [one-third the total] kill and maintain orderly distribution and hold our ceiling prices...
...scholastic delinquents on varsity teams, no post-season games-in short, strictly antiseptic amateur football. Members are not required to play each other, and no formal championship will be at stake. Far from forming a league comparable to the Big Ten, the ivy-covered institutions were merely seeking to "maintain the value of the game while keeping it in fitting proportion to the main purposes of academic life...