Crossword-Solution: CHMN 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For examples of responses, see Ltr, Cmdt, to Chmn, Gen Bd, 24 Feb 42, same sub; Memo, Chief, BuNav, for Chmn, Gen Bd, 7 Mar 42, same sub; Memo, CNO for Chief, BuNav, 25 Feb 42, same sub, with 1st Ind by CINCUSFLT, 28 Feb 42, same sub.

Bolte, Chmn, Amer Vets Cmte, to SW, 8 Mar 46; see also Ltr, Ralph DeNat, Corr Secy, Amer Vets Cmte, to SW, 28 May 46, both in SW 291.2 (Cmte) (9 Aug 46).] Clearly, opposition to segregation was not going to be overcome with palliatives and promises, yet Petersen could only affirm that the Gillem Board Report would mean significant change.

Neither service complied "with the spirit or letter of the request."[14-23] [Footnote 14-22: Memo, Actg SecNav for Chmn, PPB, 2 May 49, sub: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Navy and Marine Corps; Memo, SA for SecDef, 21 Apr 49, sub: Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services; both in FC file.] [Footnote 14-23: Min, PPB Mtg, 5 May 49, FC file.] [Illustration: SECRETARY OF DEFENSE JOHNSON.] Not all the board members agreed.

Why not, he suggested, settle for the old black, white, yellow, red, and brown designations?[15-6] [Footnote 15-6: Memo, Evans for Chmn, PPB, 25 Nov 49, sub: Racial Designation and Terminology, SD 291.2; Interv, author with Evans, 22 Jul 71, CMH files.] The Navy, too, objected to the board's categories.

Thomas Schneider,[15-11] issued a revised directive to this effect.[15-12] [Footnote 15-11: Schneider succeeded Thomas Reid as chairman on 2 February 1950.] [Footnote 15-12: Memo, Chmn, PPB, for SA et al., 5 Apr 50, sub: Policy Regarding "Race" on Enlistment Contracts and Shipping Articles, PPB 291.2.] The board's decision to accept an applicant's declaration was simply a return to the reasonable and practical method the Selective Service had been using for some time.