As stormclouds thickened over the Middle East, the Congress took a sudden new interest in the weather reports. Expert W. Averell Harriman, just back from serving as U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, was called in by two Congressional committees. His reported forecast: Russia was not prepared industrially or psychologically for another warbut would try to get all she could without war.
The House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to...
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