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Senate Group Backs Nitze As Navy Head

Senate Group Backs Nitze As Navy Head Committee Votes 11-3 for Approval To Succeed Korth WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (AP) - The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11-3 today to approve the nomination of Nitze to sue. ceed the resigned Fred Korth as secretary of the Navy. Chairman Richard B. Russell, D-Ga., announced the votes against the nomination were Sens. Strom Thursmond, D-S. C., Harry F. cast. Byrd, D-Va., and Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., the latter two voting by proxy, at the committee's closed door meeting. The approving vote sends the nomination to the Senate, where Russell said it would be taken up Monday. There was advance, announcement no, to of the dissenters wage a serious fight against Senate approval of the nomination. Holds Defense Post Nitze, a former investment banker and veteran of government service, is now assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Russell announced that the committee, without a dissenting vote, approved the nomination of William P. Pundy, Nitze's deputy, to succeed him assistant secretary, and taht of St. Louis industrialist Robert H. Charles to become assistant secretary of the Air Force for Material. Nitze ran into some buzz saw questions at a hearing on his nomination Nov. 7 at which he testified he never had advocated appeasement of Russia and strongly favors more and better balanced military strength for the United States. Thurmond and other senators quizzed him about a speech he had made at a California national strategy seminar in 1960 outlining what he called a "grand fallacy" of alternatives to adequate U.S. military power. Exceedingly Tough Nitze testified that in mentioning second rate nuclear power for the United weapons States as one of the controversial alternatives he had sought only to stimulate discussion and illustrate the danof military weakness. He ger insisted the speech itself made clear that he was not advocating such things, and said he never would. Russell, who was one of the Nov. 7 critics, said he had voted nomination mainly y because Nitze's associates in government have assured him that "for lectural, he is an exceeding toughnose, two fisted manA 'big preparedness man' who would not favor divesting our military strength." in
Article from 22 Nov 1963Pittsburgh Post-Gazette(Pittsburgh, PA)
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