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...generals and admirals plan the armed forces of the U.S. in the cold light of threat and necessity. In actual fact, they keep sonar-sensitive ears tuned to what the U.S. public is thinking, and keep Hollywood-size public-relations staffs to help the public think. Last week the Pentagon got an earful of public opinion-and its ears were burning...
When Gallup's findings hit the Pentagon, they created one of the greatest flaps since the Battle of the Bulge. Navy brass was furious, promptly suspected that the Air Force was responsible for the poll and story. Unless Washington has changed, the part of the service that will expand quickest is Navy public relations...
When Dwight Eisenhower came home from Korea he said that "certain [military] problems of supply have reached rather serious proportions and require early correction." New and indirect light was thrown on this cryptic statement last week. Pentagon reporters were summoned to a special press conference by the Army's Major General William Oliver Reeder, deputy assistant chief of staff for logistics (G-4). Ostensibly, the conference was called to discuss a "1952 Procurement Report." But reporters soon detected the real reason for the conference. Army's G-4 knew that Ike had come upon a carefully protected secret...
...been listening to the guys who would like to have all the ammunition we could possibly lay down. I would expect that." Reeder admitted that U.N. Commander Mark Clark had officially requested bigger deliveries of shells. Then Reeder volunteered a sleight-of-hand statement with few equals in the Pentagon's recent history: "We have plenty of ammunition to hold a line [in Korea]. But if you want to get going again it would obviously take a lot more ammunition. We don't have any unused capacity in stand...
Commented the Washington Post: "One of the troubles with Government news handouts, necessary as they often may be, is that they tend to discourage original reporting and newsgathering enterprise . . . No one can quarrel with the Pentagon that on news of 'transcendent importance' there should be simultaneous release to all news media. But there are relatively few such stories-not enough surely, to warrant a general and vague rule susceptible of misrepresentation and abuse. The only result of the order, it seems to us, will be to put a premium on irresponsibility...