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The Direction of Supply Activities in the War Department; An Administrative Survey, I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2013
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Integration and coördination are terms that have long been used to describe the objectives of administrative reorganization. Thus coupled, the two words have appeared to represent mutually compatible goals. And most efforts at reform of local, state, and even federal, administration have embodied elements of both integration and coördination.
A somewhat different note was struck in the report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management transmitted to Congress in January, 1937. Here the emphasis was upon an improvement of the staff organization of the Presidency, rather than upon any large-scale effort to re-group and consolidate existing administrative agencies. Accordingly, it would not be unfair to say that coördination, even more than integration, was the objective of the proposals submitted by the President's Committee.
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1 For an account by one of the leading participants in the creation of the General Staff, see the personal narrative of Major General William Harding Carter included in the collection of documents on the reorganization of the War Department and the National Defense Act published in 1927. U. S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Military Affairs, Historical Documents Relating to the Reorganization Plans of the War Department and to the Present National Defense Act, 69th Cong., 2nd Sess., pp. 503–568.Google Scholar See also the unpublished dissertation by Captain (now Brigadier General) Nelson, Otto L. Jr., The War Department General Staff; A Study in Organization and Administration (Harvard University, 1939), Chaps. 2–3.Google Scholar
2 See Otto L. Nelson, op. cit.
3 Historical Documents Relating to the Reorganization Plans of the War Department and to the Present National Defense Act, p. 93.
4 Report of the Chief of Staff for the Fiscal Year 1919, p. 19.
5 Both opinions are to be found in Historical Documents, op. cit.
6 Pershing, John J., My Experiences in the World War (New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1931), I, pp. 16–17.Google Scholar
7 Nelson, op. cit., p. 461.
8 Report of the Chief of Staff, 1919, p. 15.
9 Ibid., p. 16.
10 Ibid., p. 17.
11 Ibid., p. 20.
12 Ibid., p. 23.
13 Pershing, op. cit., I, p. 103.
14 Harbord, James G., The American Army in France (Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1936), p. 212.Google Scholar
15 See GeneralHagood, Johnson, The Services of Supply (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1927), p. 155.Google Scholar
16 Organization orders of the War Department General Staff and of the A. E. F. General Staff are to be found in Historical Documents Relating to the Reorganization Plans of the War Department and to the Present National Defense Act, cited above.
17 Pershing, op. cit., II, pp. 185–186.
18 Ibid., pp. 190–191.
19 Pershing, op. cit., II, p. 204.
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