THE CONGRESS: One Command?

Congressmen who favor unifying the Army and Navy under a single command suddenly found themselves with all the ammunition they needed.

Warming up last week, proponents waited only for Congress to reconvene. Then they will roar. They have some good backing: Harry Truman and the Army are for it.

In the House, Andrew J. May and Clifton A. Woodrum, chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored...

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