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Director and does not feel it his duty to differentiate between the military air force and the great Air Force proper, the public is right in assuming either that he is deliberately suppressing the broader view point, in which case the two letters constitute a frame-up, or he does not appreciate the full significance of the New bill nor the position of the new Air Force in the great fighting machine of the nation. 

The public must assume the the letter is not a frame up, therefore it must conclude that General Pershing needs enlightenment on the Air Force, for his conception of the whole scheme is too narrow and short sighted.

He would have the public infer, first, that the Army is the nation's sole fighting equipment (he forgets the Navy and the Air Force). In other words, he does not seem to appreciate that he could not have used American divisions at St. Mihiel or in the Argonne-Meuse without control of the sea and the air, because he could never have gotten them there. Second, he would have the public infer that the Army Commander-in-Chief is the nation's sole operating agent against the enemy and seems to forget that the President, acting with and on the advice of all his assistants, is the Commander-in-Chief of the nation's fighting machine, forging at home the weapons, transporting them with food to the battle front, and with the assistance of his Commander-in-Chief in the field, hurling them against the enemy in the most effective sectors. Third, were it not for his statements before the Military Affairs Committee, we would be led from his replies to conclude that he utterly failed to recognize that the air is a new element to be conquered, defended and