Specifications._ Determination of requirements... Tables of basic allowances, tables of equipment, War Department mobilization plans.. Computations of primary requirements. Organization of the office of the Assistant Secretary of War for the supervision of war-time procurement--- SECTION B.-THE NAVY DEPARTMENT_ PART II.-CONTROL OF ECONOMIC RESOURCES AND MOBILIZATION OF INDUSTRY-Continued SECTION A.-MEASURES TO BE EMPLOYED-Continued War Industries Administration.. Public Relations Administration.. Selective Service Administration. I. Administration of War Industries_ II. Administration of War Trade... III. Administration of War Labor.. IV. Administration of Public Relations. V. Administration of Selective Service. VI. Price Control Committee_____ FOREWORD The accompanying plan is a revision of the plan for industrial mobilization submitted by the War Department in 1931 to the War Policies Commission appointed under the authority of Public Resolution No. 98, Seventy-first Congress, second session, and published in part 2 of the hearings before the Commission. The Assistant Secretary of War is charged under section 5a of the National Defense Act with the responsibility for assurance of adequate provision for the mobilization of matériel and industrial organization essential to war-time needs. However, the Navy Department also is vitally interested in this problem and has collaborated in the, preparation of this revision. The labors of the two Departments have been coordinated by the Army and Navy Munitions Board, which is charged with this responsibility by administrative directives. In formulating this plan, the recommendations of the War Policies Commission of March 5, 1932, have been taken into consideration. The tendency to overemphasize administrative efficiency and underemphasize national effectiveness has been guarded against. The objective of any warring nation is victory, immediate and complete. It is conceivable that a war might be conducted with such great regard for individual justice and administrative efficiency as to make impossible those evils whose existence in past wars is well known. It is also conceivable that the outcome of a war so conducted might be defeat. In all plans for preparedness and policies to be pursued in event of war it must never be overlooked that while efficiency in war is desirable, effectiveness is mandatory. V |