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...Washington last week, after nine months of palaver and planning, the North Atlantic allies signed the Military Assistance Pacts for the defense of Western Europe. A billion dollars in U.S. arms and equipment will soon be moving across the Atlantic. High military missions will be interchanged. This week the Pentagon will name the senior American officers who will supervise the program abroad...
Shepley called in Robert Sherrod, onetime war correspondent (Tarawa; On to Westward) who now covers the Pentagon Building. Sherrod found out that the J.C.S. had met all day the day before and that there was considerable excitement about the meeting. He also saw General Omar Bradley, head of the J.C.S. leaving the Pentagon in civilian clothes, and learned that Bradley was off to attend a meeting with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson in Acheson's office at the State Department...
Goodbye to Formosa. Later the Pentagon was still wondering how Acheson had done it. The Joint Chiefs, after all, were supposed to be the guardians of military strategy and the assessors of risk. "I predict," said one conferee drearily, "that the Communists will have Formosa within six months...
...been moved in over them to put the Navy back on an even keel. "This is a dark day for the Navy," one rebel had said when Sherman was appointed. Last week the same officer jerked his thumb in the direction of Sherman's office in the Pentagon, said: "That guy is going to town. The Navy hasn't seen anything like him in a long time...
...reports. Apparently its continued existence encouraged the growth of rumors by suggesting that there might be something back of them, after all. It was announced last week that Project Saucer's files including pictures (none of them genuine flying saucers) would be placed on public exhibition in the Pentagon. From now on, said the Air Force, its only similar activity would be the conventional military watch for unidentified flying objects which might enter the U.S. air from some other earthly country...