Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.National Defense: Senator Truman Reports
Specific mistakes in Army camp construction have already been exposed (TIME, Dec. 23, et seq.); this week the Senate's Defense investigating committee looked into causes, warned against costly bungles in the future. This the committee did well and tartly, in a 98-page report prepared by Senator Harry Truman and Counsel Hugh A. Fulton. Excerpts:
> The Army failed to heed the lessons of World War I, had no adequate plans for camps. Result: of $828,000,000 spent on 229 troop-housing projects, at least $100,000,000 was wasted. Said Senator Truman in an oral aside: "We...
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