European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Post 4 the stars and stripes december 1964 air army most vulnerable Mcnamara seems determined to Cut Back reserves Washington a for the second time in two defense officials appear to be preparing or major surgery on military Reserve just what form that surgery will take is not yet studies Hare been under Way in both the air Force and the the service recommendations Are awol cd by Secretary of de sense Robert who will make the final Deci indications Point to possible heavy losses for the army and air Force perhaps after 40 years As Fri Hoover has Avo plans to retire by Don Whitehead Washington Edgar Hoover has survived More than 40 turbulent years As director of the Fri under seven now he merely chuckles at those who talk of his possible who is 19 years said in an interview i feel in in belter condition than i Hare been in and i intend to remain Active because i just dont like the rocking chair if i i  enjoy life very Hoover gives every appear Ance of a Man who is enjoying life even when it be comes a bit hectic As it has been in recent he is 33 pounds lighter than he was six Yean lie appears to have lost Little if any of his old rest less and he places no cutoff Date on hit part of his to Comet Tram Ike fact thai president Johnson last May waived the requirement that be retire at age he will reach la roti might say in in Happy about it even though staying on the Job will coot me Hoover if i i under the new draw a tax free pension of a but by staying on the i must pay a substantial part of it in income Hoover said he had observed that men who remain physically and mentally Busy Are less subject to heart attacks and other aliments than those who slow their working grow re mentioned Bernard a Winston Churchill and the late president Herbert Hoover As examples of men who continued useful lives Long after they had passed if i he i think i would have after three or our Days of i get so itchy for activity that 1 Call the office and ask them to Send me some the Fri chief at first was More interested in talking of his health than such matters As us Tiff with the Martin Luther the evil rights and his annoyance with the Warren commissions re sort on the assassination of president John he shoved them into the tuck a few years he re 1 spent the Christmas holidays in Miami with friends we ate at All the Best restau rants a lot Rich when 1 got Back to the office 1 was much too then i got in invitation to formal dinner at the White when i got out my dress i could hardly squeeze into in i was afraid during the evening that id pop something that is when 1 decided that All my special agents were going to Lake a sur vey jihad showed that almost one agent in it was too i took Oil 10 pounds in a Short time merely by leaving off the potatoes and chocolate Cream now in Down 33 pounds to about and we have Only five overweight agents in the entire director of the Fri since Speaks with affection of Kennedy and his Joseph i have known Joe Kennedy for Many years he and i knew the boys As they grew my relations with John were very soon Ufler his and before his in Edgar Hoover likes Active life japans Sato peking target Tokyo Dpi communist China has surprised he Japa Nese poll local world by mount ing a propaganda attack against prime minister Eisaku even though he has promised to take a Forward looking policy toward the ostensible reason for the attack was satos refusal to Al Low an important chinese communist to visit Tokyo for the convention of the japanese communist the real reason May be the chinese fear that Sato will work closely with the United states to make Japan a More effective partner in the Strug Gle against asian on less than two weeks after Salo took the japanese government re fused entry visas to 23 foreign communists to attend the Jap Anesi communist party con on Peoples the official news paper of the commutes of the Chi Nese communist called the rejection of the chinese delegation a serious move hostile to the chinese and aimed at undermining sino japanese the paper also attacked Sato for permitting the visit of an american nuclear powered submarine to the japanese port of and for his protest against the chinese nuclear since that peking propaganda machinery has directed against japans head of augur Atlon in january he called me and asked me to stay on As director of the he also called Allen Dulles and asked him to remain As head of i told him i would be Happy to recently Newsweek Magu 7jne Suid John min had decided to find h my Fri it described the president on a disc changed fit of Hook the White House denied the Aslo his differences will King whom he recently called a notorious the Fri chief said i Donl enjoy a controversy and i dont i look ing for 1 have tried for years to avoid Public but i can not let attacks on the Fri go unchallenged when they Are not if 1 didst speak Oul in defense of my agents 1 would Havo no morale left in this Hoover said pressures have increased to turn the Fri into a National police Force people who should know better Are suggesting that More and More of the responsibilities of Law enforcement should be transferred from local police to the flu it has been intimated that in protecting the life of the president of the United he Federal officers should take into custody everyone who might conceivably he a threat to the presidents life when he visits a this would mean pick ing up every Kook and beatnik la a City and hold ing them without if Federal officers did there would be a tremendous uproar Over the violation of these peo Ples civil rights and rightly total Security for the pres ident of the United Stales is he when he is gregarious and loves to move you can Box him you can advise him to Lake certain precautions but that Doest mean he will Lake Hoover said there is pressure from civil rights lenders for the Fri to give personal Protection to civil rights workers and those demonstrating for civil rights the proponents argue that local police cannot be trusted to View the negro cause with they want us to be body guards and to give personal Hoover but that is ii but even suggested at one time that our agents should drive the buses used b Freedom riders going across 1 refused to do our agent cannot be chauffeurs for any after All that has been writ so few people know what we legally can do and can our agents can not be used As instruments for social they Are Law enforcement their Job is to gather facts when there is an Indica Tion that a Federal Law has been these facts Are presented to the department of and the department decides whether there will be or will not be a virtual elimination of the re serve and its merger with the National the aim of any now Stream lining would be elimination of wasteful und cumbersome duplication and strengthening of of the readiness of Reserve which Cost about 12 Bil lion a year to Pentagon planners find ii hard to understand Why the army and air Force should maintain dual organizations the Reserve and the National essentially the same Little fault is found with the Marine whose men would form u fourth Divi Sion and supporting air officials claim ii would be ready o go overseas in 30 Days Ironi the naval Reserve also escapes serious Al though officials fee it should be held to scat Luneil men rather than a larger Force including thousands of men who do not train it is in the nearly Man army guard and Man army Reserve As Well us the air Force re defense officials profess to find the air guard stands in pretty High esteem with these Mcnamara so far As the guard and Reserve Are is on Swift readiness for use in cold War or limited War he became disenchanted with them because of the slow Ness with which army guard reinforced by rounded into shape during he 1m11m1 Berlin two guard divisions needed five months to get ready after entering Federal Mcna Marns disenchantment did not apply to the air which sent 11 squadrons to Europe a month after they were mustered into Federal the defense Secretary Dis satisfaction with the perform Alec of army guard Reserve ground forces in the Berlin crisis led directly to his late 1962 order eliminating four under strength National guard and four Reserve plus 731 surplus and obsolete smaller in that same reorganization was fought bitterly but unsuccessfully by the guard und state guard divisions and Many hundreds 01 lesser guard and Reserve out fits were designated High prior Ity their assignment to by ready inside of eight weeks to Backur the regular army in a to this they were butt up in Manik Iwer and guns and the Saint treatment was accorded two other guard divisions Given the St Eilitz missions of reinforcing the in nil zone Ana Alaska where these High priority forces make up roughly two thirds of the guard und Reserve relegated to what he army Csilla its reinforcing Reserve Are 15 guard and 6 Reserve Dak which Are allowed minimum manpower and officials say these Low prior Ity divisions will Lake from 11 to 18 months to get ready after callup and this makes them vulnerable to Mcnamara sex one official referred to them u being at the Bottom of the authorities indicate that the Reserve would Bear the Brunt of any major new shuffling and that if Only one organization it to remain it would Likely by the to the is one report a plan being considered w shift ill Reserve infantry nine brigades and Ball Dillons to the guard w eliminating 13 Reserve Tri Trausti i defense officials hinted that they consider the guard poof ten tally More useful in balt Kajj than the y they note that most of Tatj units in the army guard army while Lurer percentage of the a Reserve units fulfil such port tasks As ordnance and Iran burp fan edition army Navy pm Mim  Dirac Tom of news Buksas ni3 or Mil Usu  or a incubation offices Itati Spain 01 tilth