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Last week W. Stuart Symington, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, put in the Air Forces' bid for recognition as the chief instrument of U.S. foreign policy in the air-power age. The Air Forces, said he, would send a flight of B-29 around the world "if the State Department approves." The thinly disguised purpose of the trip would be to "work out technical problems." But the real reason...
...Stuart Symington, the United States' Under-Secretary of War for Air, may have acted premature in his revelation of Army Air Force plans to send a squadron of B-29 Superfortresses on a globe-girdling demonstration of United States air might. The route and date of the flight, as well as the flight itself, apparently have received only tentative consideration and approval from policy-makers in the War and State Departments. There was nothing tentative, however, about Secretary of the Navy's James V. Forrestal's statement that the United States was maintaining the strongest fleet in the Eastern Mediteerranean...
...press conference at which Secretary Symington announced plans for the forthcoming flight, the Secretary was queried as to the purpose of the flight and replied, "What do you think?" The United States and the world don't know what to think about it, Mr. Secretary...
Some of George's critics thought this was going a bit too far-and they also thought George might never get the job. In almost the same breath, Harry Truman had nominated three other cronies-Jake Vardaman, Stu Symington and Ed Pauley-for top Government jobs, and the public howled. Ed Pauley subsequently had to withdraw after some dissection by a Senate committee; but George, as usual, was equal to the occasion...
Although he knows little about war or flying, Yaleman Symington is one of the country's lively industrialists. He changed Emerson's balance sheet from red to black within two years after he took over, kept the company free of labor troubles all through the war. His father-in-law is New York's Republican Representative James W. Wadsworth, co-author of the Selective Service law and one of Army's staunchest friends in Congress...