Show The Navy Aims a Salvo At cation Plans The United States Navy loves its pipe but not quite as much as it loves its admirals are conducting a last-ditch stand against merger of the armed services in any believing that from cabinet to mess cook the navy should dominate its own Like a tin god emerging from his isolated Rear Ellis M. Zacharias last week popped out of retirement to aim a few barbed remarks at a pending bill to create a single cabinet officer of national de-Admiral Opposes Bill The armed services unification declared would present a danger far greater than any possible enemy in the world Two years ago like were winding up the greatest naval war in Battlewagons were sitting off the coast of Japan pumping lead into Nipponese industry but only because an air force had wrecked Japanese coastal defenses and because supply bases had been won by land forces operating under a unified If a unified command in every theater of which made victory far less is a greater nemesis than an almost fully mobilized Russian army which outnumbers that of the U. S. 20 to if a unified which saved the lives of countless is a greater danger than a world grouped into camps of paramount national then Zacharias has won his Ancient history may be but current history should be a vital concern to the men who made The United States does not want but every one in which the United States has been engaged has found the country woefully The next if and when it will of a global The agitation today is not thus for a two-ocean but for a global militia which will circumvent traditional American The navy is not The navy itself established that point at But the navy has diminished in stature since the bomb was dropped at Hiro- lj T w Less important just as it declined in importance to modern warfare when it was proved a battleship could be sunk by Yet how many admirals will concede that While the United States seeks methods of strengthening its defenses for a war it hopes will never come but fears may result as long as the left pulls against the the navy seeks to set back military thinking seven years with its characteristic and traditional insistence upon Unified commands were but a part of the grand-scale allied war but they were the vital brains behind the fire Had they not been set the navy flight yet be fighting yesterday s battles which never and admirals might be striding quarterdecks looking at a horizon on which victory is but not just over the M. H |