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...left the political uproar behind as he crossed the Potomac for his conferences at the Pentagon. There all signs indicated that he was gravely preoccupied about the business of defending Europe: He needed a fighting army by 1952, and he had been getting only one-fifth of the heavy arms aid the U.S. had promised NATO's armies (see FOREIGN NEWS). But whether Ike had come home to talk Western defense or U.S. politics, or both, the U.S. was going to be looking his way for a lot of answers...
G.I.s will have a chance to see the winners when the Army sends the show on a nationwide tour beginning at the Pentagon in January. They should get their biggest satisfaction out of the first-prize cartoon by Pfc. Robert Miller of Philadelphia. Miller's prizewinner: a series of pumpkin-simple caricatures of the Army face, from private to general, in which the privates clearly come off best. Says Artist Miller: "It expresses kind of the way I feel about the Army...
...Guard thought the Pentagon was out to destroy its units and break it up. Ever since Korea, said Major General Ellard A. Walsh, head of the association, the Army has made it a policy to raid the Guard to find replacements for the troops in Korea. Morale was dropping, the Guard was losing its identity. Some units, said Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania...
...Shortly after the Pentagon released the news of its atomic submarine, the Air Force announced that for an airframe to carry the nuclear-reaction engine it had contracted with...
...Truman sent for Forrestal and asked for his immediate resignation. This, say his friends, was a "shattering experience," the final proof to his exhausted mind that he was a failure. He submitted his resignation gracefully and made his appropriate farewells. Then he walked to the Mall entrance of the Pentagon to wait for his car. "Oh, you don't have a car any more," an aide reminded him. Forrestal looked perplexed. The aide called another car and sent him home, then called Forrestal's old friend Ferdinand Eberstadt, and warned him that Forrestal was "acting peculiarly...