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...Transfer of management of the Joint Staff, an important working-level panel of about 200 top officers, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a body to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs alone. End result: substantial increase in the authority of the chairman, at the expense of the other members of the J.C.S. (a move certain to provoke a storm from service partisans who fear steps toward unification...
...Transfer of executive responsibility for a unified, multiservice command from one of the Joint Chiefs (e.g., Korea under Army General J. Lawton Collins. Alaska under Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg) to a civilian service secretary. Result: more civilian control, and a further confinement of the Joint Chiefs to their role of "military advisers...
...psychology at the University of Washington, he is a city policeman in the afternoon, and at night he is a bouncer in a mixed nightclub. His police beat is in a white section, and when some white people objected, his superior suggested that he ask for a transfer, but he quietly replied that he would rather resign from the force. After he goes off duty each evening, he reports for work at the China Pheasant. By closing time (5 a.m.), Humes has usually lifted at least one drunk (white or colored) well above the floor and carried him into...
...Dear Franklin . . ." After three months of brooding and flying a hospital bed, Ensign Bridgeman wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, beginning "Dear Franklin . . ." and demanded transfer to an active job. He told his secret to an admiral's wife who did welfare work in the hospital. She turned white and ran to the commanding admiral of the San Francisco Naval District. In old-line Navy custom, such conduct by an ensign was almost as shocking as mutiny...
...story of transfer No. 7 dates from 1940, when the Nazis occupied Alsace-Lorraine and decided, now that both sides of the Rhine were theirs, to include traditionally German Kehl as part of Strasbourg, which is on the west side of the Rhine. When the Germans retreated, the French moved in, cheerfully accepting the Nazi consolidation. They ordered Kehl's 12,000 Germans, who had already been evacuated by the Nazis, to stay out so that Frenchmen in bombed-out Strasbourg could live in Kehl. At first the French strung barbed wire around Kehl and made...