UNIFIED CONTROL
AMERICAN ARMED FORGES GENERAL MARSHALL'S VIEWS ! r WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. ' - Urging a unified department for the army and navy, General G. C. Marshall told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that the navy neither consulted nor informed the army when it made its post-war plans. During the war also it had been exceedingly difficult to obtain agreement owing to the conflicting ideas of the army and navy leaders. That was why the mere con.tinuation of the war-time joint chiefs of staff was not enough. The United States must have a constant, powerfully armed force to impress the political leaders and professional soldiers of other nations, friendly and unfriendly, that no aggression against America, however sudden, could succeed. General Marshall urged the maintenance of a unified world-wide intelligence service. "We should know as much as possible nbout the intent as well as the military capabilities, of every country," he said. " The United! States, before the war, depended on information that could be obtained by military attaches over cups of coffee at some dinner."
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Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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173UNIFIED CONTROL Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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