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THUNDER ON THE LEFT

THE LITTLE group of New Y J of the original reviewing of books and plays in this country have long shown a disturbing tendency to judge | literary merit chiefly on political grounds—to praise to the | skies the most puerile trash if it follows the party. line, to condemn in unison anything even mildly critical of the myth which they believe to be communism. It is disturbing, | not because their opinions on either politics or literature are |

worth anything, but because their chorus is frequently |

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REFLECTIONS—

by. John W. Hillman

» DON'T BE SURPRISED if Wis | newspaper appears one of these | fine days looking. like the Syrian Daily Chronicle or the squiggles made by & nervous seismograph. That will be the tip-off that the boss has read Senate Docu-

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ment No. 250, in which the Hon. | Robert L. Owen, former senator from Oklahoma, describes the advantages of the Global Alphabet, ! a new system of phonetic shorthand which is: supposed to niake it just as s simple for vou to say “Mi padre.ama a mi madre” as it is to say “Boppa loves momma.” Or its equivalent in any language, including the=Seandinavian, Newspaper publishers don’t go around looking for | that will make it easy for- them to say | loves momma" in -Spanish-—-not since the | American cruises -were discontinued, at any | | rate. But they have their problems, nonetheless— | and Senator Owen knows it. So he makes a canny | | approach. The_ Global Alphabet, he says, “would take only about’ one-half the paper for type of the! { same legibility, half the storage, half the cost of | | transportation, doubling the work done by the paper | which is available.”

| systems “Poppa | South

loud enough to keep a writer from getting a fair hearing | They've Tried Everything Else

unless he is willing to march in their own intellectual lock- _ step. So it wasn't really a surprise when these clever fellows | took down the hammer which is so integral a part of the | banner they. follow, and went after William L. W hite's | “Report on the Russians.” Mr. White, you will recall, went with Eric Johnson on a tour of Russia last year, and wrote | this book on what he saw there. Among other things he | reported that a Russian war worker in Moscow earns $20 a week (66 hours), pays $1.25 each for fresh eggs, $1.05 a pound for potatoes and $2.65 a quart for milk in the government-owned black market; that Russians generally are nice people; that their labor unions are all “company unions” and not at all what we consider labor unions in this gountry; that their workers work under conditions which American workers would consider sweat-shop, and that in 20-years of undisturbed peacetime development of Utopia the Russian living standard: never got up as high as the lowest level of an American family on depression relief. 2

” » 2 ” THIS, SAYS the chorus of critics, most of whom seem never to have been to Russia themselves, is just plain Fascist propaganda. Exactly the kind of stuff Hitler expects will split the allies apart. Why the Russian armies are right now only 30 miles out of Berlin, writes one of them, after some vague inferences about ‘‘skunks.” The book is “superficial,” “written from the depths of ignor- ' ance”—and so on. These same critics, so far as we have heard, have seen nothing subversive in reports that prices in China, also our ally, are quite high, or that Chinese work long hours for low wages and rarely have bathrooms in| | their homes. That's different. Well, the book doesn’t pretend to be profound. It is just the report of what one man—with an excellent reputa- | tion as a fair and competent and objective reporter—saw | and heard himself on a trip through Russia. Personally | we believe we'll get along better with the Russians when | we know more about them and when they know more about | __Us—an acquaintance whick.the Soviet government has for | ; ‘years been at some pains to prevent. And those shallow | critics who follow the party line of American communism |’ ‘hrough all its devious twistings and turnings are doing more to prevent a friendly understanding of Russia than ahy amount of truthful reporting ever will do.

ANNUAL WAGES

GUARANTEED annual wage is one of the main]

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aspirations of American workers,” the war labor

Soard told President Roosevelt, in urging a study of annual |

wage plans. ~The Scripps-Howard newspapers reached that concluion a long time ago. For many months, in our news col-

1mns, we have beer printing stories about.annual wage!

slans, how they work and what their benefits are. We have

such a series running now, one of which appears today on |

. Page 15.

We have editorially encouraged the spread of annual -

wage plans. We have fried to get employers and employees :0 study the plans now in operation with a view to adaptng them to more and more businesses. We believe they wre” good for all—employees, employers, and .communities. At present, as the war labor board concedes, it is im9ractical to impose these plans on some industries. But

t is safe to say that annual wage programs could be used |

successfully by a great many more companies than now 1ave them. Though the solution must be found by business ind labor, certainly government counsel and encouragenent can help. So we can enthusiastically indorse President Rooserelt’s request to War Mobilizer Byrnes that Mr. Byrnes’ wdvisory board undertake a full dress investigation of the subject. We hope the board attacks the task with spirit and vith wisdom. We know from experience that too little nformation on the subject exists.

CUTTING THAT QUESTIONNAIRE ET'S HAVE a cheer for the budget bureau's reduction of government questionnaires submitted to private yusiness. ago, the bureau and associated agencies have saved miltons of dollars for government and business by saving “ns” 5% a number of departmental requests for questionnaires. ~The answer was “no” to one proposal Cc alling for 300,-

900,000 forms; to the practice of two agencies using a daily |

report costing $20,000 a month; to a statement of operations involving. 800,000 reports a year. Other examples are available by“the dozen. One business concern reports it has saved 5000 manaours a month as a result -of simplifications made under the reports act. And myriad small businessmen are returning to something like normal nerve control as the number and complexity of government forms decline.

Vigilant checking and rejecting already have produced

. results. But bureaus will continue to think up new quesThat is instinctive with bureaus. ; The budget bureau may rest sssurel that the country na: “Watch them, boys. And keep-shaking your-

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“vowel sounds and six compound consonants, each with

Under the federal reports act, passed two years |

»{ change would ‘be

IF THE GLOBAL ALPHABET can, do all that, it's likely “to find the managing editors of the United States beating a path to its door. Why not? In these days of paper shortage, they've tried every thing else. Of course, the fact that only Senator

Owen and a few other global savants could decipher | the space-saving pot-hooks might be a slight dis= | advantage. But why quibble? If we put the news | in the ‘paper, can we help it if you can’t read it? | Either study Global or stick to the funnies. And, according to Mr. Owen, it shouldn't take vou long to learn to read globally. The Global Alphabet, he -says in his introduction, can be learned | in a day. After looking at some of the samples, however, we're not sure that he isn't a bit too optimistic. One day may be par for the course, but we're a special case—a phonetic duffer. We once enrolled in a shorthand class, after a well-meaning adviser told us it would be a great help in newspaper work. | That venture in self-improvement had two results: We broke the spirit of the teacher, and we decided, after a month of baflement, that shorthand was strictly for stenographers. And Senator Owen's |

Global Alphabet looks suspiciously like shorthand. “LET . INDIANA DEMONSTRATE UNITY”

If so, we don’t want any part of it—regardless of how much of the boss’ precious paper it will save.

Alphabet Uses 42 Symbols

THE NEW ALPHABET has 18 consonants, 18 | an appropriate symbol, The vowel sound “ah”—as in a doctor's office—for instance, is shaped like a croquet wicket. We could remember that particular character all right, for we once made a strong bid for the croquet championship of Barnstable county, Mass The shorter “a,” as in “at,” is the croquet wicket with a loop at its left end; the “a” in’ “all” is just the reverse and looks like an unstarched musical note. These same symbols -upside down are used for the vowel “0” sounds—“00,” “u” and “ew.” Those aren't so tough but the rest of the vowel symbols look like | a Boy Scout's first lesson in tying knots, while the compound consonants: “sh,” “zh,” “th,” “wh,” “kw” and “ng” run strongly to geometrical figures—and we never did very well in geometry, either. The consonant sounds are Huh, Juh, Guh, Luh, Ruh; Buh, Puh, Duh, Tuh, Fuh, Vuh; Muh, Nuh, Suh, Zuh, Chuh and Thuh. Of these Huh is our favorite, as it’s just a straight line which, as everyone knows isthe shortest distance between two points. Guh and Kuh are supine parentheses, “Guhl” face down and ‘Ku on its back takirig the count-x-as we suspect we'd be if we dabbled much with Global. -

Detours Around Spelling | THE IDEA is that the system detours around the intricacies and inconsistencies of English spelling, which tend to confuse the beginner. You write words just as they sound. Also the sponsors propose to issue -bitingual-and-trilingual-books. with a suitable glossary anid phrases of common speech Iii oRder ‘to teach people to speak other languages with the least possible difficulty. It's been tried by language teachers in | several parts of the world. After receiving Mr, Owen's explanation of the Global Alphabet, the senate referred it to the committee on foreign relations. "We suspect it will stay Since 1932, senators have grown prey. Suspicions of alphabets,

there.

WORLD AEFAIRS—

Touchy Question By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, ports from India tense resentment” at the appointment of three ‘“collaborationists” to represent that sub-continent at the San Francisco conference. India’s representatives, appointed by the governor general, | Lord Wavell, are Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, Sir Firozkhan Noon— both members of the viceroy's council—and Sir V. T. Krishnamachari, former premier of Baroda. Sirdar J. J. Singh, president -of the India League of America, tells the writer that “these men are persona non grata with Indians,” and that a future government With popular support “may very well repudiate tl ert.” Mr. Singh quotes a statement received by him from the famous Chakravarti RajagqgPalachari, for-

March 22. —Respedk of

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of the appointment.“ C. R.,, as he is- known in India, would have preferred the two leaders of the Indian National Congress and the Moslem League. There is little chance; however, will refuse to accept the nominees fully accredited by the government of India, the generally recognized authority in that country. Any up tp the Indian government. Al Ae

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| By Eimer Johnson,

{adopted by sembly, sued ‘a proclamation designating the week beginning-March 25, 1945, ! as Foreign Policy Week of the State | of Indiana. lamation

| Let us all help fo make Foreign |

-|lation in our state behind the ob- whether or not it is completed.

. tions working together for a spéedy to be.

| “LET'S | PRACTICAL”

mer premier of Madras, calling for a reconsideration |

that the conference They will come |

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious conTrade Bldg. troversies excluded. Because In accordance with a resolution | of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250

| the 84th general as-| | getiera | words. Letters must be= |

Indiana Com- | Board of

Pres,

munist Political Association,

Governor Ralph Gates .is-| signed. Opinions set forth

here are those of the writers, and “publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsis bility for the return of manu scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

The governor's proc-| recommends that alll citizens of the state and all social and educational organizations study | and discuss the problems of foreign, policy. Foreign Policy Week, I believe. affords an opportunity as well as a'!of crowding him out of the places responsibility on the part of all of entertainment and out of the organizations and institutions in hotels and trains and the telephone the statet to study and speak out!booths, and they will think nothing on the historic united nations Dum- [at all of standing in front of him barton Oaks agreement, the text when he returns to find his job.

of the Yalta conference agreement |If you want to help the service-

and the proposals of Bretton Woods man, stand behind him once in a now before congress for. approval. |while instead of in front of him. It doesn’t make any diffeernce to Policy Week become an‘ -occasion|the serviceman whether or not he that will register the broad united has a memorial on Meridian street. support of all settions of the popu-|1t will not affect him financially | It] {Jectives of the united nations con-|is petter economics, however, as a ference to be held in San Fran- | post- -war project to pay men for cisco April 25. In the spirit of |pyilding it than to pay job insurCommander Harold E. Stassen’s de- ance to idle men. Let the serviceclared position, of full support to! ‘men build it if you will.” Pay them

tthe-President’s recent message to! union wages without the necessity |

congress, let ‘Indiana demonstrate of paying union dues. Let them do its unity and support fof the es: |the maintenance work ‘forever af tablishment of a World Security good wages. But let's be practical Organization for a durable peace. and finish the job: Foregin Policy Week should become | The real memorial to the servan event that will find businessmen, |iceman will be fair treatment and abor, Republicans, Democrats,Com= sound evidence that he. is home munists and all patriotic orgamiga-/and home is what he expected it As individuals and as com{mun ities and as states there are many things that can be done for the comfort and convenience of those who have sacrificed so much. When it comes to monetary re-

ctory and a lasting peace. a. =

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By the Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis| ward and hospitalization, that part |

It is unfortunate that we did not/of the job belongs to the federal

name the downtown public project government. It alone has the power |

either. the state plaza or civic cen- ito coin money and fix its value, and ter instead of war memorial. It extend the huge credit limit. It would have saved a lot of argument was only Uncle Sam who was big as to whether it should be carried enough to go into the American on to completion or if each Indiana homes and take 15 or perhaps 20 serviceman should receive perhaps million men and women and to six or eight dollars instead. If no|possess them for the duration of

one wants a war memorial call it their service. It is only Uncle Sam |

something else, but finish it sowho can tax all of the people] that it will be a credit to the state jenough to make material amends | of Indffha and a thing of pride to those who have fought so well} and beauty to the eity of Indian- (and sacrificed so much. As indiapolis, Many people who now condemn complaining about the bill, the ‘war memorial with “the re-| |electing congressmen who are not turning” soldier cannot eat .stone afraid to see~that the serviceman and mortar” think nothing at all gets fair treatment plus.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

2Q FOUL

SIR RAMASWAMI MUDALIAR is a former mem-

ber of the Madras legislative council, Indian legisla~ | Indian franchise committee, econoniic | | committee of the League of Nations and mayor of |

itve assembly,

| Madras, Sir Firozkhan Nogn was a member of the

Punjab legislature, minister for local self-government | in Punjab and high commissioner for India in Britain. |

He also represented the government of India on the

imperial war cabinet and Pacific war council. Sir V. T. Krishnamachari entered public life through the | Madras.ciyil service and was India’s delegate to the | assembly of the Leagie of Nations. The word “collaborationists” as-used in their con- | nection, therefore, loses much of its point. For 4hdia's best friends ameng the allies have. sincerely regretted the lukewarmness: of certain of her leaders, like the great Mahatma Gandhi, toward the war effort against the axisg* The problem of colonies, serrilories and de= pendencies’ is ‘certain to loom large at San Francisco. Perhaps soméfhing constructive can he done about it, Maybe a sort of Philippines formula; giving hope to subject peoples everywhere that they will one day be free, can be worked out. - But it is a rangy, and touchy, subject. And unless the united nations use wisdom in their handling of it, they jeopardize postwar co-op-Haiica Ww of Sete, 3 the ‘real aim of the paisley. ¥

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| “WE ARE TIRED |OF THIS PROPAGANDA”

BY A War Mother,

| | Indianapolis |

them in the. infantry. |are just mere children.

{be over at a certain. time.

{end soon ever since December of {1943—and they are still doing the [same thing.

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| Some of us have -had a harder

time than others raising our chil- | dren. We have nurséd them through !sickness, seen them wearing little raggedy overalls, worn shoes, clothes made over—but we managed to get them through high school. just mere boys, they marched off to war, coming home crippled, spirits broken, or: getting their bloody (clothes back. Come on mothers and wives. get busy and do something. do you say, propaganda and slaughter. : 2 n ” “DUTY TO SAFEGUARD OUR HERITAGE” By Henry W. Reger,

Let's What

1909 N. Talbotf ave I must agree -wholeheartedly with the letter by: Voice in -the Crowd printed a week ago. It ise the duty of all Americans to safelguard our heritage. That is the finest and best government devised by man. It was for that] | reason I wrote my bit of advice to [the leaders of our nation. It—is sometimes frightening to me to see SO many Americans totally unconcerned with the nation's welfare, | ‘how ‘its government is run, whether | or not_we have honest and effi-| cient. government, etc. He simply takes his liberties for granted, but “that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Our government will never rise above the demands made on it by | the populace and if the populace | becomes indifferent to it, the freedoms he now has are in danger of being taken from him. As for the capitalists of the nation, there are many who accept their position with a great deal of concern for the welfare of society There are a few capitalists or man- | ufacturers in town so conscious of that responsibility that I defy the | C.J. 0. or A. P, L. or any union | {to organize the p ‘sonnel of these |

lviduals we can do much by not| concerns to unionism. and by |

Regardless of what anyone might | say on the subject, whatever gov- | ernmental controls there are on | business, the capitalists and indus{rialists are responsible for, that control being applied. Why stiould | we have a wage and hour law, an anti-trust law, child labor law, etc? | The greedy and avaricious capitalare responsible. It's wrong when labor must strike to get a square deal. It's a sin for any industrialist to use child labor even if we didn't have child labor law on ‘the books. Any nfanufacturing concern that mugt hire labor for less than the wage and hour law permits doesn't deserve to stay in bluisiness: The Voice in the Crowd forgets. thatthe capitalists were .respon-

Now they are going to take our| {18 and 20 year old boys and put] These boys | Why don't] | they end this war? Why? That's| {what we mothers want to know.| : [Why do they broadcast that it will | timidity of spirit. They |

|have been predicting that it would | YOU enter one of those great cathedrals in this coun-

Then, |

We are tired of this.

REPORT FROM EUROPE Are

That Is War, Too

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By Thomas L. Stokes

CARNETAN, France, March 22. ~It's a pleasure to run into one of those oldline, regular army officers, seasoned from long service, blunt, bluff, but with a big heart for the safety and comfort of the soldier who serves with him, endowed with a sense of humor and tolerance and a beneficent sort of wisdom about the world and its people, its soldiers and its wars. A fighting man, with no time for frills, for the frothy social life about headquarters, for the niceties that pay off in. promotions. A direct fellow, quick to speak his mind to his superiors to get a job done. There are many of them, a few among the generals, but more somewhat further down. A . It was a real treat to have one of this breed, Col. Eugene M. Caffey of Atlanta, Ga., for my companion for a day and as a guide to “Utah” beach, one of the two Normandy beaches over which the American armies plunged into France, and over which were poured the supplies for that army.

Not Glamorous, but Essential COL. CAFFEY commanded the first special engineer brigade, one of the three which came over with the invading armies. These were units of the army service forces, that vast organization which prepared“the way for the invading armies back in England, for “their transport, food, munitions ‘and medical care, and then set up a base here. The first brigade on Utah and,tlhe fifth and sixth at Omaha, the other landing beach, did the housekeepihg job. It is not glamorous, but it‘is so essential. For an army-does move on its stomach. The first special engineer brigade, in the landing here, fought side by side with the infantry and the artillery and the others who gave up their lives here. The armies have marched on, getting glory in the * headlines, but Col. Caffey and many others like him have had to stay behind. For a long time they moved thé stuff forward over these beaches, until the ports were captured. Then

| they had to clean out the obstructions left behind by

the Germans in the harbors and organize the transport system, build roads and repair the railways, a mammoth job of which no military bard ever sings.

‘Deep Pride and a Deep Humility' COL. CAFFEY has been through it all. He now is in charge of the Normandy base division which includes Cherbourg. ‘He has taken a lot. He 1s built for it, a big, broad-shouldered strapping fellow, slightly stooped, with a bristly mustache and a pugnose, somewhat reminiscent of the Better 'Ole "Old Bill” in cartoons of world war I. He lives his job. He is proud of his brigade He talks about this’ beach and the operations here with a fondness that gets into you. It's personal with him. I noticed it first as we rode through the countryside to Utah beach in the way he pointed out the land marks, Once on the beach, he developed a noticeable compounded of a déep pride and a deep humility. There was the fueling you get when try. Then he walked up the steps to a simple memorial, a white obelisk, with the red sea horse, the symbol of the amphibious engineers. Below, in a vaulted room, are inscribed the names of the scores who lost their lives here. This memorial was built under Col. Caffeys direction through" volunteer contributions. “Not a cent of taxpayer's monéy,” he said; bluntly. Just as bluntly he ordered me off the grass which surrounded the monument as we turned to leave. Col. Caffey is a veteran of beach landings in Africa, Sicily, and Sa! before Utah in France. That was war. He looks back upon it with vivid memories Now he is tied up with all the routine of © geting supplies from his area to the front, of the problems of administering his province, about none of which there is the fire and drama of war: But that is wat, too. We ‘sometimes forget that.

IN WASHINGTON—

Notebook Items By Peter Edson _

WASHINGTON, March 22—. I'he much scoffed-at leutenants have -the highest percentage of heroes in this war Of 100 Congressional Medals of - Honor awarded to the army thus far, 27 have .gone to lieutenants, 22 to sergeants,” 20 to’ privates, seven to majors, five -to colonels, five to captains, four to lieutenant colonels, three to corporals, technicians, brigadier generals, and one to a general—MacArthur. u 5 n SECRETARY OF COMMERCE Henry Wallace has a book coming out in April. “Sixty Million Jobs” has been set for the title. The ‘liberal-minded Press Research had a report coming out with the same title, but when Wallace staked a claim on it, Press Research had to tear all the covers off its publication and think up a substitute. " = 5 SAID Judge Fred M. Vinson on taking over his new job as federal loan administrator: “If you think I'm going to get mixed up in any Wallace-Jones feuds, you're wrong—though I come from a feudin’ state.” (Kentucky.)

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| Boon to Small Businessmen THE ALUMINUM COMPANY of America brought to Washington a couple of truckloads of things that can be made out of aluminum, They are now on display in the senate office building majority caucus room, scene of ‘many sideshows such as the midget

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| sitting on Morgan's lap, Wallace and Jones airing

their views, and the flve assistant secretaries of state being put on the rack. Included in the aluminum exhibit are dice, pots, pans, stepladders, tables, chairs, bars, shapes, wire, machine parts, household appliances—hundreds of things that can be made by small businesses when the war is over. Aluminum company officials are testifying on these prospects before the senate subcommittee investigating the future of light metals. ! » ” ” SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Forrestal’s annual report gave first tipoff: that the ‘U. 8. marine corps now had six ‘combat divisions.’ The 6th marine division hasn't been in action yet. . The 5th- got: its

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"Wel, Judge, | see you've ve been buying garden tools sqain—looks

Ne like a fig spring for the missus!"

‘|can be done by women, If big busi-

sible for the New Deal legislation— not .the masses.: They. should have reformed their colleagues without forced legislation. I am afraid that at the war's end many industrialists’ will replace men with women wherever possible] providing they can get a woman to do a man’s job for 5 cents less per hour. Big business only looks at the profits. It has been found that 40 per cent:of the jobs in industry

ness only looks at the profit side of the ledger, I am afraid they are in danger of dooming their system.

- DAILY THOUGHTS

Soave And I will plant them upon their land, and..they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy | God.—Amos 9:15,

EVERY man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste

Aor nis of for his i

e earth as Is oecessary|

bloody baptism on Iwo Jima. Tqjal strength of the. . marine corps is now 475,000 officers and men, which is 4000 bigger than the combined U, 8. regular army and national guard in 1940.

News for Cuba's Sweet Tooth A BIG BATTLE has been going on in Washington for purchase of -‘€uba’s sugar crop. The Cubans have beén maneuyering to sell three years’ crops in order to stabilize production through 1947, when it is figured the war will be over and prices may be down. But the Commodity Credit Corp., which does the wartime buying, is in business for only two years by act of congress and can't dicker beyond 1046. Last year’s price of $2.65 per hundred pounds isn't satsifactory to Cubans, who have reportedly turned down offers of $3 and even $3.10. Big question is whether higher price. to Cubans will mean a higher price for U. 8. consumers or a bigger Siaiay 4 to keep prices down.

ARMY AIR FORCES ay Band its 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th U. 8; air force organizations and group the whole home "defense into a cojitinentay air force under a single general responsible for the entire job.

| Increase in planes, fields, personnel and communica-~ | tions would make the simplified organization more

flexible, eliminate duplicated red tape. vie ” n un

ADD to the list of army alphabetical agencies. SAFIME-pUnited nied States Ar Forces in Middle East.