The Admiral Comes Aboard

The U.S. Psychological Strategy Board, whose job is directing a unified line for U.S. propaganda abroad, was launched in July 1951. Since then, it has had so many changes of command that it has never got up a full head of steam. Its first director, Gordon Gray, resigned after six months; he was succeeded by Raymond B. Allen, who took the job on a temporary basis, is quitting after 8 1/2 months. Last week, the board got its third skipper--Admiral Alan G. Kirk, U.S.N. (ret).

The admiral has had plenty of experience in both hot and cold warfare. Naval attache in London when World War II broke out, he directed Naval Intelligence for seven months, later commanded task forces in the invasions of Sicily and Normandy. After the war he served as Ambassador to Belgium (1946-49) and the Soviet Union (1949-52). He was the personal choice of the Central Intelligence Agency's Walter Bedell Smith, who preceded Kirk as ambassador in Moscow.

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