About the Author:

Louis MORTON, who joined the Dartmouth faculty earlier this year as Professor of History, is presently engaged with Professors John Masland and Gene Lyons of the Government Department in making a study of the educational preparation of civilians responsible for forming the nation's security policies. During World War II, Professor Morton was historian with the U. S. Army in the Pacific, and after the war he served with the office of the Chief of Military History of the U. S. Army. He supervised the preparation of twelve volumes on Pacific fighting in the series entitled The United StatesArmy in World War II, and he is the author of three books, The Fall of the Philippines,Strategy and Command of the War AgainstJapan, and Command Decisions in WorldWar II.

Professor Morton was a faculty member at C.C.N.Y., William and Mary, and the University of Wisconsin prior to his Dartmouth appointment. He has lectured at the National War College, West Point, Annapolis, and many universities. A graduate of N.Y.U. in 1935, he received his master's degree there in 1936 and his Ph.D. at Duke in 1938.