also Ltr, Javits to author, with attachments, 28
Oct 71, CMH files.]

[Footnote 15-48: Ltr, SecDef to Chmn, Cmte on Rules,
21 Mar 50, SD 291.2 (21 Mar 50).]

[Footnote 15-49: _Congressional Record_, 81st Cong.,
2d sess., pp. A3267-68; Memo, Leva for Johnson, 9
May 50; Ltr, Johnson to Javits, 18 May 50; both in
SecDef files. See also Ltr, Javits to author, 28
Oct 71.]

Departmental interest in racial affairs quickened noticeably when
General Marshall, Johnson's successor, appointed the brilliant labor
relations and manpower expert Anna M. Rosenberg as the first Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel.[15-50] Rosenberg had
served on both the Manpower Consulting Committee of the Army and Navy
Munitions Board and the War Manpower Commission and toward the end of
the war in the European theater as a consultant to General Eisenhower,
who recommended her to Marshall for the new position.[15-51] She was
encouraged by the secretary to take independent control of the
department's manpower affairs, including racial matters.[15-52] That
she was well acquainted with integration leaders and sympathetic to
their objectives is attested by her correspondence with them. "Dear
Anna," Senator Hubert H. Humphrey wrote in March 1951, voicing
confidence in her attitude toward segregation, "I know I speak for
many in the Senate when I say that your presence with the Department
of Defense is most reassuring."[15-53]

[Footnote 15-50: Carl W. Borklund, _Men of the
Pentagon_ (New York: Praeger, 1966), pp. 121-24;
Ltr, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman to author, 23 Sep 71;
Interv, author with James C. Evans, 13 Sep 71; both
in CMH files.]

[Footnote 15-51: Immediately before her appointment as
the manpower assistant, Rosenberg was a public
member of the Committee on Mobilization Policy of
the National Security Resources Board and a special
consultant on manpower problems to the chairman of
the board, Stuart Symington.]

[Footnote 15-52: Interv, author with Davenport, 17 Oct
71.]

[Footnote 15-53: Ltr, Humphrey