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Some of the clearest signs of progress showed in the Pentagon. A few months ago George Marshall and his assistant, Robert Lovett, had moved in to take over an establishment crippled by the false economies of Louis Johnson, glum with its own inadequacy. They had moved slowly at first, clearing up past mistakes, charting the new course. Now they could report health, optimism and a steadily accelerating pace of accomplishment. Last week their charts showed...
There were other reassuring reports of the nation's budding power. U.S. troops were fighting effectively in Korea. A Senate committee unanimously voted out the draft bill almost exactly as the Pentagon had asked for it. The Great Debate had ended as the nation found itself with a foreign policy after all. In spite of lapses and fumbles, the U.S. was unmistakably showing its true strength and its ability to face the necessities...
...Pentagon and the President, he said, had approved a plan to maintain six divisions in Western Europe...
...December, the Pentagon generals were saying that nothing could be done until somebody else (not they) decided whether the U.S. Army would try to stay in Korea. They were waiting for a clear-cut directive from the White House. It never came. Yet a firm decision was made, largely by the ist Marine Division. When the marines fought their way down to Hungnam through the "unconquerable Chinese hordes," and embarked for Pusan with their equipment, their wounded and their prisoners, the war in Asia took on a different look. The news stories, pictures and newsreels of the Hungnam action contributed...
...point of Labrador iron ore alone, Western strategists shudder to think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...