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Show NAVY PLANS FOR WAR UNTIL 1949 The Navy is planning for war in the Pacific as late as 1949, according accord-ing to official admission, but this does not mean that naval officials have an idea that the war will not end until 1949. Obviously, the admirals know that war is a tricky business and that misfortune can cancel good fortune without notice or explanation. explana-tion. Consequently, they cannot afford to take a chance on any optimistic confidence as to what will happen in the current war. While it may be hard for a plain civilian to foresee any possibility of warfare as late as 1949, it should be comforting to every American that officials are planning plan-ning for the worst. At least, if the war does last, we will not have been unprepared for the emergency emergen-cy as we were when the Japs attacked at-tacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. |