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...months, the argument had gone on quietly but insistently at Washington's topmost levels. Should the U.S. seek a peace treaty with Japan? Yes, said the State Department; the time had come to bring a sovereign Japan back into the free world. No, the Pentagon protested; the U.S. did not dare withdraw its occupation troops and leave Japan wide open to Communist aggression...
...Pentagon planners had also agreed to the decision on the understanding that the U.S. would negotiate a separate U.S.-Japanese agreement which would let sizable U.S. forces remain in Japan, as they will remain in Western Europe. Thus an independent Japan would continue to serve as the most important anchor of a U.S. Far Pacific defense necklace strung from the Philippines through Okinawa...
Verbal Missiles. Caught in the middle, a harassed Pentagon spokesman quickly denied that 1) Washington had ordered a ban on beer, and 2) that it had ordered the ban to be lifted. It was, he said, all up to commanders in the field...
Finally, however, its casualty report was sent on to the Pentagon. The news story, not the Army postal stamp, had been wrong. Last week the Army dutifully sent the Carters a telegram officially informing them of their son's death...
Actually it was not quite that simple. Many a U.S. manufacturer was still in the dark last week about what was expected of him, chiefly because the Pentagon has not yet totted up a complete list of all the things it wants. As part of the Munitions Board's general mobilization plan (TIME, Sept. 4), thousands of sample contracts had been sent to companies, to go into effect when & if actual orders were placed. But many companies with such contracts did not yet know 1) whether they would get orders or 2) how much of their facilities would have...