Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...having once assumed a bigger public service, the chief problem that confronts these men is how to achieve also a better public service. Particularly crucial is the development of a more equitable system of Civil Service examinations. An increasing amount of weight must be given to native ability rather than experience--this on the supposition that the naturally able man can, in a short time, make up for the superior experience acquired by his innately less competent rival...
...question this week was how much actual drafting Clarence Dykstra would have to direct in 1940. The conscription act forbids the Army to enroll draftees until adequate housing is ready for them. Housing was still a problem last week: so was equipment. The Army talked of taking in only 100,000 draftees and volunteer registrants this year, of putting off the rest of the 400,000 in the first draft until early 1941. As the Army had expected, the rate of volunteering has increased since the conscription act was passed. Registered men can volunteer for one year's service...
...Fleet, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred in Washington. Before them was not the question of what foreign policy the U. S. should pursue, not the question of whether the U. S. should or should not fight Japan. Their duty was simply to consider the practical problem of what the U. S. Navy should do if called upon to fight Japan and what would be likely to happen in such...
Their conclusions, if any, were high naval secrets, but lesser Navy men and civilian experts were at work on the same problem. From the standpoint of strategy, is the time good or bad for a war with Japan? What could the Japanese and U. S. fleets do, if they were matched against each other...
...Hull: 1. Put off Philippine independence-promised this January-until 1945. 2. Officially urged U. S. citizens to leave the Orient. 3. Urged Congress to rush Guam fortifications. 4. Sent 6 U. S. destroyers into the East China Sea. 5. Publicly consulted J. Edgar Hoover on the 5th Column problem in Hawaii...