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When members of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Preparedness finally straggled in and the hearing got under way, General Marshall formally laid down the Pentagon's plan for the nation's first universal military service and training program (TIME, Jan. 15). It was a plan calculated to supply the nation's military manpower needs, not just for the moment, but at least "into the next decade." Marshall wanted authority to draft all able-bodied youths for 27 months of service when they reached the age of 18. After active duty they would be enrolled for another...
Jumping Generals. Marshall laid down his statement and marched back to the Pentagon, leaving Anna Rosenberg to answer questions and present the details. Mrs. Rosenberg promptly proved that she was a powerhouse of both information and energy. For two hours she reeled off a staggering list of statistics, carried on a discussion of policy, and kept a brace or more of brigadier generals hopping up & down to supply her with papers...
...week's end, Washington was so fed up with the confusion over the new censorship policy that the Pentagon called Colonel Echols home to find out what was going on. Meanwhile, the Army's information chief, Major General Floyd Parks, asked U.S. editors for "forbearance . . until we get this thing on the trolley...
Pearson promptly retorted that he had been assured by the Pentagon that no security was involved in the messages, and that, anyhow, he had changed enough words and dates to protect the code...
...satisfied, McCarthy fired off a list of questions to Army Secretary Frank Pace. Was it enough, as Pearson claimed it was, to change a few words to protect the U.S. code? Had the Pentagon cleared the messages for publication, and if not, how had Pearson gotten them? Pace replied that the messages were classified material, and that the Army had not approved them for publication. But for technical reasons, Pace wrote, "cryptographic security has not been violated." Nevertheless, the Army had started a special investigation to find out how Pearson got the messages (six days before McCarthy had raised...