29-08-2013, 07:52 PM
"Forestal and Eberstadt had become friends at Princeton and then worked together in the 1920s for the investment firm of Dillon, Read and Company. Eberstadt subsequently became a vociferous critic of Roosevelt's New Deal policies, and an advisor to Tom Dewey in his 1940 presidential campaign, ...by helping Forestal with the Army Navy Munitions Board project 'Eberstadt served a Democratic administration... that he despised. Personal loyalty to his fiend outweighed politics'(97)
Eberstadt submitted his final report to Forrestal and Patterson just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It envisioned a more powerful ANMB, which would make it easier for the Army and Navy to coordinate their wartime procurement activities with representatives o f key civilian industries. In spite of the fact that his final report stressed the importance of civilian control over the ANMB, it was heavily criticized by many of Roosevelt's advisers, who saw it as a first step toward military domination of the economy" --CREATING THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, DOUGLAS T. STUART p. 39 FDR rejected plan but strongly influenced 1947 Military Reorg. Act.
Eberstadt submitted his final report to Forrestal and Patterson just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It envisioned a more powerful ANMB, which would make it easier for the Army and Navy to coordinate their wartime procurement activities with representatives o f key civilian industries. In spite of the fact that his final report stressed the importance of civilian control over the ANMB, it was heavily criticized by many of Roosevelt's advisers, who saw it as a first step toward military domination of the economy" --CREATING THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, DOUGLAS T. STUART p. 39 FDR rejected plan but strongly influenced 1947 Military Reorg. Act.