| Show r Round Merry 1 Forr Forrestal stal Brings Service I Peace PaC 1 But It Wont Won't Last I IBy J By Robert S. S Allen substituting for tor Pearson who 1 is on vacation DIJt 1 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-It It now develops f 1 was a hefty jigger of wishful thinking thin fi i j that were we're statement Issued after after the hush-hush hush powwow of at the joint chief I of 8 staff taft 1 4 The accord was largely superficial rj The root cause of the long standing navy air force feuding was settled only on the Surface Sur ur- ur face The basic issue between them control control con con- of strategic bombing is still a 8 as rj un un unresolved I resolved as before What actually happened was this this' Defense Secretary James V. V cracked the whip on the military chiefs In effect he ordered them to stop inter inter- service rowing As officers they bowed to this command They promised promis d to cl clamp mp down on further bickering But on O th th bitter cause of this got little more th than a quilt patch-quilt truce The navy still sUll retains a big oar ar j in strategic bombing a a fact of ot which the thi th thair air force torce Is 13 acutely aware and resents resent a at hotly as before the imposed harmony It can be predicted that thi air force will never relinquish its itA claims claim to supremacy in this field The A. A A F. F feels eeLi that Forrestal a former secretary of tJ the thi navy is partisan toward that service a and has repeatedly favored it against the theA A A. A. A F F. As evidence of this the fact is cited that Forrestal F is allowing the navy to put into ito operation the program propounded by Rear Admiral Dan Gallery to make the navy the dominant strategic bombing branch 1 When Gallery's scheme got into th the tj public prints the navy officially it and announced that he had been formally reprimanded by the secretary of oi the navy But at this very moment lt its it's a fact that Gallery's plan is being quietly put Into effect The next time there is a decisive showdown show down between the two services Forrestal widely publicized peace will v vanish ish in tn thin air oil Job Hunting Forrestal Forrestal had another t meeting during his stay slay on Long Island J This one also but there was no no r statement about it afterward as on the t. t staff chiefs session 1 The Democratic secretary of defense tl talked to the Republican candidate f for r president about the desirability of main main- taming continuity of policy in running 1 the defense department t tIts tIt's Its It's an open secret that Forrestal would like to hold on to his job regardless of the outcome of the November election Governor Gov Gov- J Dewey did not commit himself Copper Collar Supreme Collar Supreme Court Justice sI William O. O Douglas was barred from the theair theair 4 air last Saturday night It happened this thUi t tway way The liberal jurist had agreed to interrupt interrupt interrupt inter inter- rupt his vacation to address the state convention convention con con- of ot the te Montana Bar association in Helena He was told the meeting would beheld be beheld held in a civic auditorium seating and that his talk would be broadcast j But when Douglas arrived he learned that the meeting had be been n shifted to a hotel dining room seating about and that his speech would not go out over over- the radio The reason overt y The Anaconda Copper company t th thie e 4 powerfUl aIr powerful all corporation in Montana had had j served notice It would withdraw a donation to the bar associations association's convention conven ll l tion if Douglas' Douglas speech was broadcast 4 Douglas delivered his prepared speech anyway anyway on on the subject of the responsibility responsibility of ot the legal profession to uphold the constitutional freedoms of press and speech guaranteed in the bill of rights right Copyright 1948 Bell Syndicate 11 1 |
