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...correspondents are blaming Allen again-forgetting that the chain of command is still Pentagon and/or State Department, Supreme Commander and then Information Chief...
...minutes later, the letter-addressed in longhand to General Dwight D. Eisenhower-was on its way to the Pentagon offices of the Overseas Courier service. That night, it was flown across the Atlantic, and the next day was hurried to Ike's headquarters near Rocquen-court. Nobody concerned would say what the message contained...
...something new. In March 1950, at the insistence of Arthur Vandenberg, Dulles was restored to a position in the State Department. Dean Acheson assigned him to the job of formulating the treaty for Japan, a chore which had been on the back burner for almost three years. The Pentagon was not sure that it ever wanted to see Japan turned loose-at least...
...Russians. He argued his case with a lawyer's competence. For every objection he had an answer. To quiet Pentagon fears, the Japanese would agree in advance (but not in the treaty) to invite the U.S. to station troops on her territory. To Russia's charge that Japanese militarism was being restored, he answered curtly that that was a matter of concern to no one more than the U.S.,' "which bore the burden of Japan's war of aggression for nearly four years, as against six days of Soviet Union belligerency." The right...
...colonel's statement threw the Pentagon into a pother. The Department of Defense denounced it as a "terrible blunder," an example of "lowlevel thinking," disowned the report. But despite the storm that broke on the colonel, no one contradicted his facts-and no one took action against Major General Floyd L. Parks, Chief of Army Public Information, who had cleared his statement...