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A second speaker, Rober Taber, former CBS correspondent in Cuba and now executive secretary of the newly formed National Fair Play for Cuba Committee, declared that opposition to state department Cuban policy "constantly on the rise.
A University professor, who is also a Brigadier General in the Air Force Reserve, yesterday gave his whole-hearted approval to Sen. Stuart S. Syminton's defense reorganization plan, but expressed serious reservations concerning one aspect of the proposal.
W. Barton Leach '21, Story Professor of Law, characterized Symington's plan for unifying the Defense Department as "top notch" and "first class." The proposal advocates abolishing the offices of the three service secretaries and creating a Military Advisory Council, presided over by one Chairman, who would also run an...
Each of the services would still have a chief of staff, but he would not serve on the Advisory Council. Thus, it is contended, the Chiefs of Staff would lose their present, conflicting, "two-hat" status.
Describing the unification move as "vital," Leach nevertheless criticized the proposed elimination of the service secretaries for two reasons. In the first place, he pointed out, it would be wise to maintain the present system as long as the separate branches remain intact.