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...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...
Trytten said that he did not think the Defense Department had made its decision on which plan to support; an official of the Department said last week that it had taken the Conant plan under advisement after Conant had defended it at a special Pentagon meeting...
...committee didn't like the look of U.S. stockpiling, Britons liked it even less. Britain's complaint was not that the stockpile was too small, but that the U.S. had set out on a "reckless" stockpiling of everything that was scarce. "American buyers right up to the Pentagon," said one British government consultant, "have been rattling around Europe buying metals from every scrap heap...
...Gilbert Corporation is the leader in this field. Their engineers are apparently inside men in the Pentagon and Oak Ridge, who are lifting the latest trade secrets. This whole program of advancing scientific orientation of the little tots is a kind of junior universal military training to prepare them for the coming, grim years...
Also present at the meeting in the Pentagon, held Wednesday, were representatives of the Association of American Universities, headed by Gordon Gray, president of the University of South Carolina. Both groups endorsed U.M.S., which could draft all men at 18, even those unfit for combat...