THE CONGRESS: The People's Strategists

Congress took over the problems of U.S. war strategy last week. As G.O.P. leaders gave defense bills the right of way, committees in both House and Senate began writing their concept of what the biggest peacetime military establishment in the nation's history should look like.

The House Armed Services Committee drafted a selective service bill which, in the next two years, would build up a force close to a quarter of a million more than Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal had asked for. The draftable age group: 19 to 25. They would be used as 1) replacements, 2) to build the...

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