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Measure for the Future. It was not the Senate's idea that UMT would begin to operate immediately. But the Senate, following the recommendations of the Pentagon, would fit UMT into long-term military planning, once the present crisis passed. Then, the measure would require every 18-year-old to take six months' training, sign up thereafter for a choice of standby military duties. On most of the draft bill's other measures, the Senate was also willing to accept the word of the Pentagon. The bill would...
Ceiling: 4,000,000. But at that point the Senate began to haggle. The Pentagon wanted no limits on its authority to call up as big an armed force as it might think necessary. In the dark days after the North Korean invasion, Congress had removed all statutory ceilings. But now the Senators were feeling a little more relaxed. They began thinking again about senatorial prerogatives. Wayne Morse of Oregon, nominally a Republican but actually a no-party man, prepared an amendment which would limit current mobilization to 3,500,000-just about the figure the Pentagon...
...Pentagon violently objected. George Marshall wrote: "A direct gamble with national security . . . The armed forces have never been throttled with a mandatory ceiling in the midst of a period of great emergency." But the Senate was not impressed. It did raise Morse's figure. But at the risk of constricting the armed services at just the moment when they might need to call up more reserves or National Guard divisions, it put a ceiling of 4,000,000 on mobilization plans-and reaffirmed Congress' right to determine the size of the nation's armed forces...
...scales. He is supposed to keep food prices down, but the law prevents him from tampering with most farm prices. With one ear he has to listen to the complaints of wage earners and housewives over rising prices; with the other, he tunes in on the desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...
...week's fighting was expensive for the Communists. Eighth Army announced 13,720 new Chinese and North Korean casualties. But the enemy, especially the Chinese, still fought stubbornly and skillfully. Any wishful thinking about worsening Chinese morale was dispelled by the Pentagon's prisoner-of-war count: as against 136,000 North Koreans captured since the war began, only 1,800 Red Chinese had surrendered...