Melvin Joseph Maas spent ten months of World War I overseas with the U. S. Marine Corps Air Service. Now 42, a colonel in the reserves, Colonel Maas applied recently for active duty. The Marines turned him down cold: he was too valuable in his present capacity as ranking Republican member of the House Naval Affairs Committee.
During his seven terms in the House, the Minnesota Congressman has advocated a two-ocean navy, has plumped loud & long for U. S. defense measures, from fortifying Guam to building a larger air force. Year ago he horrified the Navy's high command by proposing that...
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