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fw OD wd ge Ww AU mW O , +p + pas «Ff , se J The February (W949 -lssue of the "Washington Times Hopald’ carried an article under the caption “Einstein Joins In Protest of Military Might" which stated that Professor Albert Einstein and seventeen other prominent citizens asserted the day before that "the marked trend toward military control over American life" had grown more dangerous than ever in the past yeare The article stated that in a 64 page report published by the National Council] Against Conscripfion, they accused the Army of spending nearly four million dollars during the fiscal year of 1948 on "propaganda" to undermine the American tradition of civilian control. The article further steted that the group was concemeéd over the “dominant position” of Defense Secretary Forrestal “in the raking of foreign policy", and roundly denounced Fresicent Trunmants plan for universal military training. According te this article signers of the report included Chancellor Ray Lyran Wilbur of Stanford University, authors, Pearl Buck and Ircuis Bromfield,and obherse File Nos €2-82828—A (3)