(Classified) QUITS AS CIVIL DEFENSE BOSS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090029-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: July 10, 1951
• Content Type: NSPR

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Lieutenant General Cornelius W.
Wickersham of Lawrence who will
retire Sunday. as director of.`Taf
tau civil qease, was honored at a]+
Wickersham Quits.
As Civil Defense Boss
.County Executive J. Russel Sprague presents a framed scroll to
Lieutenant-General Cornelius W. Wickersham, retiring as Nassau
civil defense chief after ?a year of service. Wickersham is returning
"IT DID disclose that we were
wholly unprepared but I think we
have learned the lesson that war
will last as long as Communism
lasts," he declared.
He urged Americans to adopt a
four-point policy' for the coming
ty without pay for the past year PY?s? Our policy, he said, must _be
in setting up a home front defense,, one of courage and not of fear;
General F. Trubee Davison of all our Armed Forces must be i
Locust Valley had been expected .,kept- ujp to strength, both as to
by civil defense inner circles to, persoj-nel and i q pment we nust
take over the post of director when have n stroi:g ci defense 01 of
Wickersham resigned. zatian and we must conserve o+.r
But Davison's recent call to' natural resources.
Washington will prevent him from
doing so. Davison will assit General
Walter Bedell Smith in the Central
Intelligence A envy. His :Czr'iglion
fru CD post was an-
nounced last week.
WIOKERSHAM will continue to
serve as director until his success-
I or has been named by County
'Executive J. Russel Sprague.
,The retirement of Wickersham
is not a pleasant thing to face for
his is a duty remarkebe achieve-
ment," Sprague said yesterday at
a luncheon for Wickersham at the
Fwwan Club in Roslyn.
In one year under his guidance)
"Nassau has the finest most out-
standing civil defense organization;
in the county," Srague said. .I
Sprague put his appreciation and.
that of the County Board of Super-'h
visors into words engraved on a'
scroll which he presented to Wick
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