THE WEEK IN REVIEW
THE WEEK IN REVIEW AFTER listening to bitter wrangling between the Army and Navy for months, President Truman cracked down last week with a militant message to Congress calling for merger of the...
...Pullman...
...27, 19.41, war warning from the Navy Department should have been j£ sea at the time of Japanese attack and not concentrated in-Pearl Harbor...
...Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the President's factfinding panel, made it clear that the UAW refused to retreat from its position that GM profits were an integral part of the dispute and must be considered in any settlement...
...Congress has shown a great reluctance to act...
...In his message to Congress, President Truman cited Pearl Harbor as a costly lesson on the value of unified command...
...Plan Of Organization In his 5,500-word message urging merger of the armed forces into a single Department of National Defense, the President proposed the following organization for the new agency: The Secretary of National Defense— A. His civilian staff...
...In view of the public interest involved," the President said, "it would be highly unfortunate if any party to a dispute should refuse to cooperate with a fact-finding board...
...Ford charged that parts-makers were cancelling contracts because they are determined to hold out for high- • er ceiling prices...
...3 deadline to Feb...
...Investigation Extended Meanwhile, Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster was given a new lease on life when the special Committee voted 7 to 1 to ask Congress to extend the inquiry from the present Jan...
...C. Commander of the air...
...Atty...
...Pearl Harbor An Example The President's plan of merger appeared to have been warmly received in Congress, but one Congressman, Rep...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the former President...
...I plead for strong military forces only because I believe the alternative is worse...
...1. Chief of staff of national defense...
...Ford estimated its increase would amount to 15 cents an hour to all production workers, but the union found it "completely unacceptable," just as it did a 10 per cent increase proposed by General Motors some time ago...
...The staunchest Congressional apologist for the Navy, Vinson charged the President's program carries the threat of creating a military dictatorship and "smacks of the Germany of the Kaiser and of Hitler, of Japanese imperialism...
...UNO Participation Assured Action was completed in Congress this week on legislation which makes the United States a full, active participant in the United Nations Organization...
...President Truman promptly appointed the U. S. delegates to the UNO...
...val Intelligence in 1941, admitted under questioning that he had misinformed the Roberts Commission investigating the Pearl Harbor debacle when he told it all available information on Japan's moves and intentions, as decoded in Washington, was sent to Admiral Husband Kimmel, naval commander at Pearl Harbor, before ^he attack...
...Power Plea...
...Meanwhile, the UAW rejected a 12.4 per cent wage rate increase offered by the Ford Motor Company...
...former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who will act as senior American representative in the absence of President Truman or Secretary of State Byrnes...
...Principal developments during the week before the Committee recessed for the holidays were these: IVice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, Chief of Na...
...Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen...
...3Wilkinson testified that ships at Pearl Harbor ? might have had an hour and a half to get out to sea if a warning message had been sent at 9:30 a. m. on Sunday, Dec...
...Roosevelt's position,----5Testimony revealed that a British-American naval ? agreement signed by Pacific fleet commanders Dec...
...In contrast, he pointed out that "since V-J Day we have not had a single unauthorized work stoppage...
...The President followed the Army's recommendations in almost every particular, and Navy officials, who have fought the proposed merger with every kind of weapon in their political arsenal, called off their bitter battle as soon as their Commander-in-Chief made known his wishes...
...Charles A. Lindbergh, once vilified as an "isolationist," called last week for a world organization backed by military power and guided by the principles represented in Christian ideals...
...A. Commander of the Army...
...Stettinius also was named to the most important U. S. post in the organization—> American representative on the UNO's Security Council, the agency which will rule the new international organization...
...House concurrence in the Senate measure came by a vote of 344 to 15 after a sharp debate over the provision which authorizes the President to use American military forces to enforce peace without act of Congress...
...World War II veterans were reported this week from Washington to be furious at the run-around they get when they attempt to get materials the armed forces don't need any more...
...B. Commander of the Navy...
...Tugwell has been the storm-center in Puerto Rico as a result of his action in pushing reforms...
...Heads of civilian agencies were unanimous in blaming the Army for the mess, pointing out that the War Department is slow in declaring surpluses and that it causes endless confusion by withdrawing goods after declaring them surplus and by providing inadequate, inaccurate data on quantity and type of material it does release...
...B. His military staff...
...President Truman took a hand in the dispute when he asserted that company ability to pay is relevant to union demands for higher wages and declared that Government fact-finding boards should be authorized to go into company books, if necessary, to determine such ability...
...Rexford Guy Tugwell, one of the original Roosevelt brain-trusters, is resigning his post as governor-general of Puerto Rico to accept a post as professor of political science at the University of Chicago...
...Arthur Vanden-berg, Michigan Republican...
...6, 1941, envisioned a U. S. attack against Truk if the Japanese went to war...
...His selections were Mrs...
...The U. S. did not have unified direction of land, sea, and air forces, he pointed out, "and we certainly paid a high price for not having it...
...I know the American people Tiyill never approve of anything resembling a military dictatorship...
...The world organization, he said, should be "led by Western peoples who developed modern science with its aviation and its atomic bomb...
...Monopoly...
...On the other hand, we have had to lay off almost 40,000 employes for five weeks on one occasion and on a second we had to lay off another 20,000 for five days...
...Tires...
...Ford gave his own workers a clerfh bill of health while blaming suppliers of parts for a "desperate, frustrating kind of production...
...The admiral admitted that perhaps this attitude by the Navy had been "erroneous...
...Tugwell...
...3. Assistant secretary of Navy...
...Color Line...
...He predicted that unless either the Democrats or Republicans "adopt and follow through on a liberal platform, organized labor will join hands with other groups in the formation on a national basis of a third party...
...5. Other assistant secretaries as needed...
...THE WEEK IN REVIEW AFTER listening to bitter wrangling between the Army and Navy for months, President Truman cracked down last week with a militant message to Congress calling for merger of the two branches into a single unified command as a means of serving notice on the world that the United States "means business" in its determination to be ready for sudden war in the atomic age...
...anese messages on the movement and location of ships in Pearl Harbor were not regarded by Washington in 1941 as showing Japan had unusual interest in Hawaii...
...See editorial, Page 12...
...1. An undersecretary of national defense...
...Tom Clark last week launched a civil suit charging anti-trust violations in the manufacture of television equipment on the part of five corporations and three individuals headed by Paramount Pictures Corp...
...The bids of three other prospective buyers were rejected...
...2. Advisory council to the President to be made up of chief of staff and the three service commanders...
...A 99-day strike of 10,000 CIO workers at the Windsor, Ont., plant of the Ford Motor Co...
...Great Britain and India joined last week in demanding that the United Nations select an American city for its headquarters which draws no color lines...
...The measure, now awaiting White House approval, increases college subsistence allowances and raises the amount that can be borrowed with Government guarantees...
...The memoranda consisted of notes taken by former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles who reported that he was "surprised" and "discouraged" by Mr...
...4. Assistant secretary of air...
...Carl Vinson, Georgia Democrat who is chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, launched a bitter attack on the proposal...
...George F. Addes, international secretary-treasurer of the United Automobile Workers, declared this week that while "President Truman has given his support" to some labor legislation, "the Democratic Party as a whole has been apathetic...
...John Simpson of the Federation of Atomic Scientists said last week that U. S. atom bomb plants are still operating 24 hours a day...
...Wilkinson conceded that he had been instructed not to send Kimmel copies of crucial intercepted Japanese messages indicating imminent hostilities...
...The union has maintained that GM is financially able to pay the wage increase without raising prices on automobiles, but GM has consistently refused to let the subject of profits and financial capacity enter the discussions...
...All tires will be released from rationing on Jan...
...ended last week when the union voted to accept a Dominion Government proposal for negotiation and, if necessary, arbitration of the dispute involving demands for a closed shop and dues checkoff...
...Truman used the occasion of his special message on unification of the armed forces to renew his demand for immediate approval of peacetime conscription legislation...
...The city picked must be in an area in which "all members of the United Nations should be able to feel at home, whatever their racial origin or the character of their state...
...A group of 43 U. S. railroads last week won Federal Court approval to buy the Pullman sleeping car business for about $75,000,000...
...6Admiral R. K. Turner testified that the Pacific ? Fleet, under a Nov...
...GM Refuses Facts Hope that the President's fact-finding board might soon break the UAW-General Motors deadlock faded last weekend when General Motors belligerently announced that it would withdraw from hearings on the wage dispute if the board dared to delve into profits and prices...
...In a public statement last week Henry Ford 2nd apologized to the American people for the failure of the Ford Motor Company to fulfill its promise to manufacture 80,000 automobiles by Christmas...
...Run-Around...
...The plan would sink the Navy," Vinson declared, "and would concentrate the greatest military power in the world today in the hands of one man—a man not responsible to the electorate or to Congress...
...2. Assistant secretary of Army...
...1, the OPA announced last week...
...But I must confess to you that I am fearful of the use of power...
...2Wilkinson told the Committee that intercepted Jap...
...GI Bill...
...Criticism...
...Congress last week completed action on legislation revising the GI Bill of Rights by liberalizing rules on loans and education for veterans...
...4Secret memoranda placed before the Committee ? disclosed that the late President Roosevelt, in the Summer of 1941, proposed to Winston Churchill that instead of favoring a world organization after the war, the United States and Britain should join forces to police the world...
...The striking UAW, seeking a 30 per cent wage increase, has insisted from the beginning that the "economic arithmetic" of profits and prices must be considered in the wage controversy...
...7, 1941, as he had urged Admiral Harold Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations, to do...
...Homer Ferguson, Michigan Republican, voted against the motion on the ground that the Committee would need a longer period than that to conclude its inquiry...
...Names And Notes In The News Atomic Bombs...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 52
