Adm. Nimitz Proposes Joint Chiefs Of
Staff Be Reduced To Three Members
Service Leaders Contend
U.S. Capabilities Should
Not Be Underrated
WASHINGTON, UP) — Chester
W. Nimitz, former top Navy of
ficer, proposed Tuesday the Joint
Chiefs of Staff be reduced to
three members.
He told the Senate Missile
Satellite inquiry the post of chair
man of the top military advisers
could be rotated among heads of
the Army, Navy and Air Force.
“This would remove one layer
in this pryamid of the chain of
command,” Nimitz said.
The white - haired Nimitz re
called that at one time during
World War II, when he was a top
commander in the Pacific, he fa
vored a “single chief of staff.”
That was when he “had a sense
of frustration” waiting for deci
sions from Washington, he ex
plained. But he said hindsight and
experience have convinced him
“I was wrong and I am now op
posed to a single chief of staff.”
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, which
Nimitz proposed to shake up, now
consists of the chief of staff of
the Army, the chief of staff of
the Air Force and the chief of
Naval operations, plus a chair
man. In addition, the command
ant of the Marine Corps sits in on
consideration of matters of major
importance to the Marines.
The Senate Preparedness Sub
committee called him and Gen.
Carl Spaatz, former Air Force
chief of staff, for public testi
mony in its search for ways to
streamline the Defense Depart
ment and speed missile-satellite
programs.
House Conducts Separate Inquiry
At the same time, the House
Armed Services Committee was
continuing its separate inquiry
aimed like the Senate subcommit
tee at finding ways to strengthen
the defense set-up.
The House group called Secre
tary of Army Brucker and Gen.
Lyman Lemnitzer, acting Army
chief of staff, for closed door
questioning.
Brucker had a prepared state
ment, given to newsmen, which;
said “The Army has never sub-1
scribed to the theory the Inter-1
continental Ballistic Missile is or j
will be the ultimate weapon.”
A long parade of industrial and
other witnesses have told the
I
Senate subcommittee, headed by
Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D - Tex),
that this country is falling behind
Russia in ICBM and other weap
ons of the future. But the men in
uniform, while partially agree
ing, contend also that U.S. cap
abilities should not be under
rated.
Could Survive Surprise Attack
Military witnesses told the
House Appropriations Committee
that the United States could sus
tain a surprise attack by the So
viet Union and still recover suf
ficiently to annihilate ‘Russia.
The testimony was highlighted
by the assertion of Adm. Arleigh j
Burke, Chief of Naval Opera
tions, that “the advent of missiles
does not change our ability to
destroy Russia.”
“What has happened,” he said, i
“is that they now, for the first
time, have the prospect of a cap
ability to destroy us quickly.” He
added he didn’t think the Rus- j
sians “have any tremendous!
jump on us.”
Gen. Curtis Lemay, vice chief
of staff of the Air Force, told the
House group the United States
could be the first to send a rocket
to the moon.
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pose of maturing wine.
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Change In Mood
Detected Between
U. S. and Canada
HAMILTON, Ont., UP> — U. S.
Ambassador Livingston T. Mer
chant appealed today for fuller
mutual understanding between
the United States and Canada.
In a speech prepared for deliv
ery to the Women’s Club of Ham
ilton, Merchant said that in his
two years as envoy to Canada he
had detected a change of mood
both countries should examine.
He said there was a “steadily
growing criticism of certain pol
icies of the U.S. government or
action which are assumed” to re
flect these policies.
As a result, he warned, prob
| lems involving the United States
and Canada had become more
j complex and difficult to resolve.
I Turning to specific issues, he
said that if there was any prob
lem over the huge U.S. invest
ment in Canada, it was one of
“Canada’s own creation.”
The money, he continued, had
come to Canada presumably be
j cause Canadian individuals or
| corporat’^-nted it and be
cause ~al climate of pol
! itical ‘ ^ economic ex
pans'o- ’md a44racted it.
The proc^c could be reversed
should 4h" climate “turn gen
uinely r^’llv,” he noted. He added
that judging from the recent de
cline in the premium of the Can
adian dollar over the U.S. dollar,
I the northward movement of U.S.
capital already seemed to have
diminished.
If Canada imported more goods
I from the United States than she
I exported, he declared, that also
j was “a Canadian problem and not
one created or forced on Canada
by a predatory neighbor.”
“Imports into Canada from the
U.S. represent the aggregate of
individual choices of millions of
Canadian private citizens buying
what they want, on terms they
consider more advantageous than
are available elsewhere.”
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Little Hope For Federal
Aid In Airport Expansion
At Fairbanks and Sitka
WASHINGTON, UP> —Delegate
Bartlett said Tuesday conferences
with Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration officials have given him
little hope for federal aid in pro
posed airport expansions at Fair-,
banks and Sitka.
Reporting on a meeting with
James T. Pyle and several aides,
Bartlett said the CAA chief ad
vised that increased funds asked
by the agency this year are still
below the levels needed by the
agency to meet all military re
quirements.
With this condition, Biartlett
quoted Pyle as saying he felt
there was little chance the gov
ernment could help the two Al
askan cities.
Bartlett said Pyle strongly
commended Fairbanks for its an
nounced intention to seek other
means of doing the job if federal
aid was not available.
The delegate said he was ac
companied by Bob Ellis of Ellis
Airline who made a plea for fed
eral help with enlargement of the J
Sitka airport.
Bartlett said he met with Pyle ■
to lay the groundwork for similar |
meetings to be sought in coming ■
weeks by delegations from Sitka !
and Fairbanks.
| Martin Jet Seaplane In
Successful Flight Test
BALTIMORE, Uft—The Martin
Aircraft Co.’s remodeled jet-en
gined SeaMaster passed its first
flight test Monday.
The huge seaplane capable of
flying 600 miles an‘ hour was
tried out in the air for an hour,
55 minutes under observation of'
the Navy.
The first two experimental
models of the plane designed for
long range reconnaissance and
mine laying blew up. The “trouble
was blamed on the tail.
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