DEVEAMTNED 30 BE 45 REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES ADMINISTRATIVE MARKO a E.0- 12065, Section 6 5 eyAm by. _a-MARS, Date- ae iveDranc. 409278 “Services Seekat Least One Voice’et nthee “A. E.Cy Make’ Overture vf >On By C. B. Allen ’ : WASHINGTON. ‘tain, the effectiveness of the na{GH-RANKING officers of tion’s atomicdefenses inevitably the’ Army, Navy and Air would be strengthened if the miliForee are hopeful that one tary eatablishmest had direct rep~ by-product ‘of ‘the forthcoming Tesentation in the A. E.C. instead} atomic ‘tests on Eniwetok atoll of having to rely on indirectrepre-; t. ip for sentation through ..the commis- BEST COPYAVAILABLE és boy.” on? Their hope ‘that this may come a0 Pass is based on the fact that them military establishment. has been times when the: commission* calls-them in and treats them like office boys—and I am. afraid we have acted much the same way, “(made « friendly overture by nam- with respect to AnE.'G.top sclen- ” ing an A. E. C. scientist to full- tists attending atomic -field‘ tests .», fledged membership on: its own where the military runs theshow. "field test team in preparation for It's high time for’ us to get to‘the Eniwetok experiments.. For gether at the same level. on both “‘the frst time since a joint task sides of the fence.” ““forces, has been set up to conduct This, of course, cannot be accom- ‘ON xOg 430704 -¥be made “a real member of the critic of the present A. E. C.- #.deam” ‘rather than = a.“mere ‘bat military set-up ‘said. ‘There have WyYyerius, ergy development after the war respective services see to it that “and d they do not want to ‘establish they are the best‘ avatlable—they 7, such control now—but they do still can’t be as effective as a miar ~ . feel that the armed forces. should who sits at the head table,” one’ © » AXOLISOdSY sion’s military Maison Sommittee ‘ clyilian Atomic Energy Commis- and the A. E. C.’s director of military application, Brigadier Genera! _ sion. : ” ‘These men donot’ belong to the James McCormack jr. . “No matter how good:the men ae clique which wanted to perpe’..ate military control over nuclear en- are who hold these jobs-—and their - NOILOATION * may be eventual . .the military in the now exclusively Is | ™ * I> nS such tests, its top staff—hitherto plished en the A. E. C, side by the §..g0Mmposed solely of. Army, Navy mere willingness to do so; it would egand Air Ferce officers—includes require. amendment: of ‘the Mc“s civilian, Dr. Alvin C. Graves, of Mahon Atomic Energy Act of.1946. - ‘“the Los Ale~os, N. M., scientific This, after months of wrangling © laboratory. Dr. Graves’s projection over the issue, both in Congres- into sional hearings and legislative de- oowhat, heretofore, has been an ex- bate, ' determined . that ‘all - five x elusively military realm may prove members of the A. E. Cc, must be ., © have no particular significance; civilians. +,on the other hand, it.may be a * ‘very significant straw. In any event, when the last serles of atomic tests . were held at Eniwetok in April and May, 71948, the. scientists of the A. B.C, functioned only as a sub- ‘ @ gidiary “task: group”? working ina f. dependently .of the military staff trend reporting directly to the task ““force commander, Lieutenant Gen- ~ eral John E. Hull, of the Army. Dr. ae . “ Graves, incidentally, was deputy ' “director of this scientific group. \ ¥ ANY responsible military men are convinced that Congress would modify the law to permit onemilitary member on the commission—-and they insist, that one is all they want—if the A. E. C. itself indicated abellef that this is. desirable. Such. officers view the according of staff-officer status to Dr. Graves as a definite bid for such: an expression from the A. E. C.—though there also are those who imply, that the commis‘Even this modified merging of sion “forced” the military to put “military and civilian effort in what its scientist on the joint task force . :was essentially a ‘war~exercise led staff. For the most part, however, the . General Hull to describe the set-up as “unique” in military organizaton. He added that it represented “the ultimate in‘ integrated effort’ ‘and embodied the concept of preparedness now being taught at the « National War College—“the inte., grated effort of the armed forces latter view e ates from the ILITARY officials in position to know say that the “splena * ld relationship and co-operation” _ established between the . military organization and the A. E,- C.'s speechbefore the National Press same group that has given rise to reports of long-standing friction and failure to exchange vital information between the A. E. C. and the armed forces. Probably the crowning rumor in this category _ with civillan scientists and: other —publicly scotched last week by Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief ae civillan elements.” of Naval Operations, at a luncheon scientists at Eniwetok under Gen- Club—was that the joint Chiefsof Staff had not been -informed by the A. E. C. how: many: atomic bombs the United States has in its stockpile or the rate at which they are being produced. eral Hull have improved ever since. From other authoritative surces “But they do not deny that they ex- it was learned that not only the Sipect still better Maison under -the Joint Chiefs hut Secretary of Deanewly’» announced“ arrangement} fense Louis A. Johnson know these agiving the A. E. C. direct repre- vital facts and that they are “consentation on the Eniwetok ‘war tinuously informed” by the A. E, C.; council” at staff level. ° on all phases of development in’ ss Similarly, these experts main- the field of atomic energy. ? oS wy 2 n “ a [*