SENATOR ROBERTSON'S UNIFICATION BILL

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 15, 1947
• Content Type: MEMO

~i / 02 'ciA ~ his 'c &o26bQ OERNME~~TT
The Director.
'Chief, Legislative Liaison Division.
DATE: 15 May 1947.
SUBJECT: Senator Robertson's, Unification Bill.
1. The Chief Clerk, Senate Armed Services Committee, has informed
me that the Committee will consider S. 1282. Senator Robertson's near
same Admiral Sherman on behalf of the Navy Department),. areor zw
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2. General Norstad, on behalf of the War Department (and T
unification bill, on Tuesday 20 May. This will be in executive session.
aau~eati ar 3. 1LCC waicn we care to submit by 20 May.
The Clerk of thet-Coimaittee while not Apeni ioall7 anio
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v one inrectiar snouts over to appear, it necessary, in
forwarding. to the Committee. In an aceaanvinn IA+.+a.. 4+- a .~,4 ~.~
It is therefore "recommended that the undersi
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stateaaent ,for the Director to submit in connection with those proms =
5. ' It is farther recommended that the Director or the uad~
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coordinate this matter with Admiral Sherman and General Norstad. STAT
W A L T M L. PF
Chief, Legislative Liaison Division
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CGLndZL172 UNITED STATES G
TO The Director
FROM : Legislative Counsel
SUBJECT:
The following persons were present during testimony-of the Director
.Derore the senate Armed services Committee, 29 April 1947:
Gen. Vandenberg
Sen. Gurney, Chairman, of South Dakota
Sen.,Bridges of New Hampshire-
Sen. Robertson of Wyoming
Sen. Wilson of Iowa
Sen. Saltonstall of Massachusetts
Seb. Baldwin of Connecticut
.Sen. Morse of Oregon
Sen. Hill of Alabama
Sen. Byrd of Virginia
Sen. Maybank of South Carolina
John Adams, Chief Clerk of the Committee
Adm. Hillenkoetter
Col. Harris
M. _ Pforzheimer
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creased national security. The bill represents a coiaprorri se, drawn up
in a spirit of cooperation and' imutual ?understanci-a , designed: to provide
STATEIMT OF FLIff ADL-ilJL C~- ST. M b`+. =STL, U.S.i;., BEFORE THE HOUSE
fl fRESENTATIVt S Co IaTTEEE GN - Ei DIT , `a " IN EXECUTIVE DEPA , I.TS.
H.L. '2319 represents a si-cere. effort of. the services to settle
differences which. have.c::isted between them in. order to provide for in-
the nation with a defense organization adaptable to raodsrn warfare._
last war `taught us many lessons which we should tc:;-:e into: aEc-
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ready incorroration of methods which future needs = y '
The bill provides for integration of the Danart.,ients of State,
to the conduct o# lobalvrar. It is geared to the increased tempo which
for the future. This bill incorporates those lessons,
It gives. legal. status to those agencies which were found to be essential
modern weapons
i;.raoso upon the conduct of war. It is sufficiently flexi.-
ble to permit th
Army navy and Air Force, through the Kati oral 3ocuritf Cou:~cil, tQ the
extent necessary to keep our military ;:olicy in balance with our forsign
policy. It legalizes, formalizes and amplifies the now e.:iating Conrit-
d , which
too of Three consisting of the Secretaries of State, `;a.r an Navy
is the genesis of a National Security Council. That is a forward-loo'ang
and necessary step.
The bill provides for what I believe is vitally needed top manage
rnent. It is my concept that the President will control the decisions of
the Secretary of National Defense on matters of ;great imi:ortance to the
United States just as closely as he would corresponding decisions of any
Secretary of a Department of the Government.
The President is the _'crsor
ultimately respons:l.E)!.c for decisions on w uto:.'s of :1atior.ai security,
I cannot[? F~,2ele sec3QP3 O 9 ~ RQ 4~ 224a$y i. i
nnrt nt. d:- e= liont lout his a - royal.
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