DEMOBILZATION
The Army, which has been turning men loose at a steadily accelerated rate (1,000,000 last month), abruptly jammed on the brakes. As if realizing it for the first time, the Army announced last week that the problem was no longer how to bring the boys home and get them out of uniform, but how to keep intact a force big enough to meet the nation's global commitments.
These commitments would compel the Army, as of next July 1, to have 335,000 men in Europe, 375,000 in the Pacific, 87,000 in other areas overseas,...
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