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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Engineer - -Authors: Frederik Pohl - C. M. Kornbluth - -Release Date: February 6, 2022 [eBook #67343] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ENGINEER *** - - - - - - the engineer - - By FREDERIK POHL and C. M. KORNBLUTH - - The Big Wheels of tomorrow will be men - who can see the big picture. But - blowouts have small beginnings.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Infinity Science Fiction, February 1956. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -It was very simple. Some combination of low temperature and high -pressure had forced something from the seepage at the ocean bottom into -combination with something in the water around them. - -And the impregnable armor around Subatlantic Oil's drilling chamber had -discovered a weakness. - -On the television screen it looked more serious than it was--so -Muhlenhoff told himself, staring at it grimly. You get down more than -a mile, and you're bound to have little technical problems. That's why -deepsea oil wells were still there. - -Still, it did look kind of serious. The water driving in the pitted -faults had the pressure of eighteen hundred meters behind it, and where -it struck it did not splash--it battered and destroyed. As Muhlenhoff -watched, a bulkhead collapsed in an explosion of spray; the remote -camera caught a tiny driblet of the scattering brine, and the picture -in the screen fluttered and shrank, and came back with a wavering -side-wise pulse. - -Muhlenhoff flicked off the screen and marched into the room where the -Engineering Board was waiting in attitudes of flabby panic. - -As he swept his hand through his snow-white crew cut and called the -board to order a dispatch was handed to him--a preliminary report from -a quickly-dispatched company trouble-shooter team. He read it to the -board, stone-faced. - -A veteran heat-transfer man, the first to recover, growled: - -"Some vibration thing--and seepage from the oil pool. Sloppy drilling!" -He sneered. "Big deal! So a couple hundred meters of shaft have to be -plugged and pumped. So six or eight compartments go pop. Since when did -we start to believe the cack Research & Development hands out? Armor's -armor. Sure it pops--when something makes it pop. If Atlantic oil was -easy to get at, it wouldn't be here waiting for us now. Put a gang on -the job. Find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. Big -deal!" - -Muhlenhoff smiled his attractive smile. "Breck," he said, "thank God -you've got guts. Perhaps we were in a bit of a panic. Gentlemen, I hope -we'll all take heart from Mr. Breck's level-headed--what did you say, -Breck?" - -Breck didn't look up. He was pawing through the dispatch Muhlenhoff had -dropped to the table. "_Nine_-inch plate," he read aloud, whitefaced. -"And time of installation, not quite seven weeks ago. If this goes on -in a straight line--" he grabbed for a pocket slide-rule--"we have, -uh--" he swallowed--"less time than the probable error," he finished. - -"Breck!" Muhlenhoff yelled. "Where are you going?" - -The veteran heat-transfer man said grimly as he sped through the door: -"To find a submarine." - -The rest of the Engineering Board was suddenly pulling chairs toward -the trouble-shooting team's dispatch. Muhlenhoff slammed a fist on the -table. - -"Stop it," he said evenly. "The next man who leaves the meeting will -have his contract canceled. Is that clear, gentlemen? Good. We will now -proceed to get organized." - -He had them; they were listening. He said forcefully: "I want a task -force consisting of a petrochemist, a vibrations man, a hydrostatics -man and a structural engineer. Co-opt mathematicians and computermen -as needed. I will have all machines capable of handling Fourier series -and up cleared for your use. The work of the task force will be divided -into two phases. For Phase One, members will keep their staffs as -small as possible. The objective of Phase One is to find the cause of -the leaks and predict whether similar leaks are likely elsewhere in -the project. On receiving a first approximation from the force I will -proceed to set up Phase Two, to deal with counter-measures." - -He paused. "Gentlemen," he said, "we must not lose our nerves. We must -not panic. Possibly the most serious technical crisis in Atlantic's -history lies before us. Your most important job is to maintain--at -all times--a cheerful, courageous attitude. We cannot, repeat cannot, -afford to have the sub-technical staff of the project panicked for lack -of a good example from us." He drilled each of them in turn with a long -glare. "And," he finished, "if I hear of anyone suddenly discovering -emergency business ashore, the man who does it better get fitted for a -sludgemonkey's suit, because that's what he'll be tomorrow. Clear?" - -Each of the executives assumed some version of a cheerful, courageous -attitude. They looked ghastly, even to themselves. - - * * * * * - -Muhlenhoff stalked into his private office, the nerve-center of the -whole bulkheaded works. - -In Muhlenhoff's private office, you would never know you were 1800 -meters below the surface of the sea. It looked like any oilman's -brass-hat office anywhere, complete to the beautiful blonde outside the -door (but whitefaced and trembling), the potted palm (though the ends -of its fronds vibrated gently), and the typical section chief bursting -in in the typical flap. "Sir," he whined, frenzied, "Section Six has -pinholed! The corrosion--" - -"Handle it!" barked Muhlenhoff, and slammed the door. Section Six be -damned! What did it matter if a few of the old bulkheads pinholed and -filled? The central chambers were safe, until they could lick whatever -it was that was corroding. The point was, you had to stay with it and -get out the oil; because if you didn't prove your lease, PetroMex -would. Mexican oil wanted those reserves mighty badly. - -Muhlenhoff knew how to handle an emergency. Back away from it. Get a -fresh slant. Above all, _don't panic_. - -He slapped a button that guaranteed no interruption and irritably, -seeking distraction, picked up his latest copy of the _New New -Review_--for he was, among other things, an intellectual as time -allowed. - -Under the magazine was the latest of several confidential -communications from the home office. Muhlenhoff growled and tossed the -magazine aside. He reread what Priestley had had to say: - -"I know you understand the importance of beating our Spic friends to -the Atlantic deep reserves, so I won't give you a hard time about it. -I'll just pass it on the way Lundstrom gave it to me: 'Tell Muhlenhoff -he'll come back on the Board or on a board, and no alibis or excuses.' -Get it? Well--" - -Hell. Muhlenhoff threw the sheet down and tried to think about the -damned corrosion-leakage situation. - -But he didn't try for long. There was, he realized, no point at all in -him thinking about the problem. For one thing, he no longer had the -equipment. - -Muhlenhoff realized, wonderingly, that he hadn't opened a table -of integrals for ten years; he doubted that he could find his way -around the pages well enough to run down a tricky form. He had come -up pretty fast through the huge technical staff of Atlantic. First -he had been a geologist in the procurement section, one of those -boots-and-leather-jacket guys who spent his days in rough, tough -blasting and drilling and his nights in rarefied scientific air, -correlating and integrating the findings of the day. Next he had -been a Chief Geologist, chairborne director of youngsters, now and -then tackling a muddled report with Theory of Least Squares and -Gibbs Phase Rule that magically separated dross from limpid fact ... -or, he admitted wryly, at least turning the muddled reports over to -mathematicians who specialized in those disciplines. - -Next he had been a Raw Materials Committee member who knew that -drilling and figuring weren't the almighty things he had supposed them -when he was a kid, who began to see the Big Picture of off-shore leases -and depreciation allowances; of power and fusible rocks and steel for -the machines, butane for the drills, plastics for the pipelines, metals -for the circuits, the computers, the doors, windows, walls, tools, -utilities. A committeeman who began to see that a friendly beer poured -for the right resources-commission man was really more important than -Least Squares or Phase Rule, because a resources commissioner who -didn't get along with you might get along, for instance, with somebody -from Coastwide, and allot to Coastwide the next available block of -leases--thus working grievous harm to Atlantic and the billions it -served. A committeeman who began to see that the Big Picture meant -government and science leaning chummily against each other, government -setting science new and challenging tasks like the billion-barrel -procurement program, science backing government with all its tremendous -prestige. You consume my waste hydrocarbons, Muhlenhoff thought -comfortably, and I'll consume yours. - -Thus mined, smelted and milled, Muhlenhoff was tempered for higher -things. For the first, the technical directorate of an entire -Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, -fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and -maintenance appertaining thereto. Honors piled upon honors. And then-- - -He glanced around him at the comfortable office. The top. Nothing to -be added but voting stock and Board membership--and those within his -grasp, if only he weathered this last crisis. And then the rarefied -height he occupied alone. - -And, by God, he thought, I do a damn good job of it! Pleasurably he -reviewed his conduct at the meeting; he had already forgotten his -panic. Those shaking fools would have brought the roof down on us, he -thought savagely. A few gallons of water in an unimportant shaft, and -they're set to message the home office, run for the surface, abandon -the whole project. The Big Picture! They didn't see it, and they never -would. He might, he admitted, not be able to chase an integral form -through a table, but by God he could give the orders to those who -would. The thing was organized now; the project was rolling; the task -force had its job mapped out; and somehow, although he would not do a -jot of the brainwearing, eyestraining, actual work, it would be _his_ -job, because he had initiated it. He thought of the flat, dark square -miles of calcareous ooze outside, under which lay the biggest proved -untapped petroleum reserve in the world. Sector Fortyone, it was called -on the hydrographic charts. - -Perhaps, some day, the charts would say: _Muhlenhoff Basin_. - -Well, why not? - - * * * * * - -The emergency intercom was flickering its red call light -pusillanimously. Muhlenhoff calmly lifted the handset off its cradle -and ignored the tinny bleat. When you gave an order, you had to leave -the men alone to carry it out. - -He relaxed in his chair and picked up a book from the desk. He was, -among other things, a student of Old American History, as time -permitted. - -Fifteen minutes now, he promised himself, with the heroic past. And -then back to work refreshed! - -Muhlenhoff plunged into the book. He had schooled himself to -concentration; he hardly noticed when the pleading noise from the -intercom finally gave up trying to attract his attention. The book was -a study of that Mexican War in which the United States had been so -astonishingly deprived of Texas, Oklahoma and points west under the -infamous Peace of Galveston. The story was well told; Muhlenhoff was -lost in its story from the first page. - -Good thumbnail sketch of Presidente Lopez, artistically contrasted -with the United States' Whitmore. More-in-sorrow-than-in-anger -off-the-cuff psychoanalysis of the crackpot Texan Byerly, derisively -known to Mexicans as "El Cacafuego." Byerly's raid at the head of -his screwball irredentists, their prompt annihilation by the Mexican -Third Armored Regiment, Byerly's impeccably legal trial and execution -at Tehuantepec. Stiff diplomatic note from the United States. Bland -answer: Please mind your business, Senores, and we will mind ours. -Stiffer diplomatic note. We said _please_, Senores, and can we not let -it go at that? _Very_ stiff diplomatic note; and Latin temper flares at -last: Mexico severs relations. - -Bad to worse. Worse to worst. - -Massacre of Mexican nationals at San Antonio. Bland refusal of the -United States federal government to interfere in "local police problem" -of punishing the guilty. Mexican Third Armored raids San Antone, -arrests the murderers (feted for weeks, their faces in the papers, -their proud boasts of butchery retold everywhere), and hangs them -before recrossing the border. - -United States declares war. United States loses war--outmaneuvered, -outgeneraled, out-logisticated, outgunned, outmanned. - -And outfought. - -Said the author: - -"The colossal blow this cold military fact delivered to the United -States collective ego is inconceivable to us today. Only a study of -contemporary comment can make it real to the historian: The choked -hysteria of the newspapers, the raging tides of suicides, Whitmore's -impeachment and trial, the forced resignations of the entire General -Staff--all these serve only to sketch in the national mood. - -"Clearly something had happened to the military power which, within -less than five decades previous, had annihilated the war machines of -the Cominform and the Third Reich. - -"We have the words of the contemporary military analyst, Osgood -Ferguson, to explain it: - - "The rise of the so-called 'political general' means a decline in - the efficiency of the army. Other things being equal, an - undistracted professional beats an officer who is half soldier and - half politician. A general who makes it his sole job to win a war - will infallibly defeat an opponent who, by choice or constraint, - must offend no voters of enemy ancestry, destroy no cultural or - religious shrines highly regarded by the press, show leniency when - leniency is fashionable at home, display condign firmness when the - voters demand it (though it cause his zone of communications to - blaze up into a fury of guerrilla clashes), choose his invasion - routes to please a state department apprehensive of potential - future ententes. - -"It is unfortunate that most of Ferguson's documentation was lost when -his home was burned during the unsettled years after the war. But we -know that what Mexico's Presidente Lopez said to his staff was: 'My -generals, win me this war.' And this entire volume does not have enough -space to record what the United States generals were told by the White -House, the Congress as a whole, the Committees on Military Affairs, -the Special Committees on Conduct of the War, the State Department, -the Commerce Department, the Interior Department, the Director of the -Budget, the War Manpower Commission, the Republican National Committee, -the Democratic National Committee, the Steel lobby, the Oil lobby, -the Labor lobby, the political journals, the daily newspapers, the -broadcasters, the ministry, the Granges, the Chambers of Commerce. -However, we do know--unhappily--that the United States generals obeyed -their orders. This sorry fact was inscribed indelibly on the record at -the Peace of Galveston." - - * * * * * - -Muhlenhoff yawned and closed the book. An amusing theory, he thought, -but thin. Political generals? Nonsense. - -He was glad to see that his subordinates had given up their attempt -to pass responsibility for the immediate problem to his shoulders; -the intercom had been silent for many minutes now. It only showed, he -thought comfortably, that they had absorbed his leading better than -they knew. - -He glanced regretfully at the door that had sheltered him, for -this precious refreshing interlude, from the shocks of the project -outside. Well, the interlude was over; now to see about this leakage -thing. Muhlenhoff made a note, in his tidy card-catalog mind, to have -Maintenance on the carpet. The door was bulging out of true. Incredible -sloppiness! And some damned fool had shut the locks in the ventilating -system. 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But<br /> -blowouts have small beginnings....</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Infinity Science Fiction, February 1956.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was very simple. Some combination of low temperature and high -pressure had forced something from the seepage at the ocean bottom into -combination with something in the water around them.</p> - -<p>And the impregnable armor around Subatlantic Oil's drilling chamber had -discovered a weakness.</p> - -<p>On the television screen it looked more serious than it was—so -Muhlenhoff told himself, staring at it grimly. You get down more than -a mile, and you're bound to have little technical problems. That's why -deepsea oil wells were still there.</p> - -<p>Still, it did look kind of serious. The water driving in the pitted -faults had the pressure of eighteen hundred meters behind it, and where -it struck it did not splash—it battered and destroyed. As Muhlenhoff -watched, a bulkhead collapsed in an explosion of spray; the remote -camera caught a tiny driblet of the scattering brine, and the picture -in the screen fluttered and shrank, and came back with a wavering -side-wise pulse.</p> - -<p>Muhlenhoff flicked off the screen and marched into the room where the -Engineering Board was waiting in attitudes of flabby panic.</p> - -<p>As he swept his hand through his snow-white crew cut and called the -board to order a dispatch was handed to him—a preliminary report from -a quickly-dispatched company trouble-shooter team. He read it to the -board, stone-faced.</p> - -<p>A veteran heat-transfer man, the first to recover, growled:</p> - -<p>"Some vibration thing—and seepage from the oil pool. Sloppy drilling!" -He sneered. "Big deal! So a couple hundred meters of shaft have to be -plugged and pumped. So six or eight compartments go pop. Since when did -we start to believe the cack Research & Development hands out? Armor's -armor. Sure it pops—when something makes it pop. If Atlantic oil was -easy to get at, it wouldn't be here waiting for us now. Put a gang on -the job. Find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. Big -deal!"</p> - -<p>Muhlenhoff smiled his attractive smile. "Breck," he said, "thank God -you've got guts. Perhaps we were in a bit of a panic. Gentlemen, I hope -we'll all take heart from Mr. Breck's level-headed—what did you say, -Breck?"</p> - -<p>Breck didn't look up. He was pawing through the dispatch Muhlenhoff had -dropped to the table. "<i>Nine</i>-inch plate," he read aloud, whitefaced. -"And time of installation, not quite seven weeks ago. If this goes on -in a straight line—" he grabbed for a pocket slide-rule—"we have, -uh—" he swallowed—"less time than the probable error," he finished.</p> - -<p>"Breck!" Muhlenhoff yelled. "Where are you going?"</p> - -<p>The veteran heat-transfer man said grimly as he sped through the door: -"To find a submarine."</p> - -<p>The rest of the Engineering Board was suddenly pulling chairs toward -the trouble-shooting team's dispatch. Muhlenhoff slammed a fist on the -table.</p> - -<p>"Stop it," he said evenly. "The next man who leaves the meeting will -have his contract canceled. Is that clear, gentlemen? Good. We will now -proceed to get organized."</p> - -<p>He had them; they were listening. He said forcefully: "I want a task -force consisting of a petrochemist, a vibrations man, a hydrostatics -man and a structural engineer. Co-opt mathematicians and computermen -as needed. I will have all machines capable of handling Fourier series -and up cleared for your use. The work of the task force will be divided -into two phases. For Phase One, members will keep their staffs as -small as possible. The objective of Phase One is to find the cause of -the leaks and predict whether similar leaks are likely elsewhere in -the project. On receiving a first approximation from the force I will -proceed to set up Phase Two, to deal with counter-measures."</p> - -<p>He paused. "Gentlemen," he said, "we must not lose our nerves. We must -not panic. Possibly the most serious technical crisis in Atlantic's -history lies before us. Your most important job is to maintain—at -all times—a cheerful, courageous attitude. We cannot, repeat cannot, -afford to have the sub-technical staff of the project panicked for lack -of a good example from us." He drilled each of them in turn with a long -glare. "And," he finished, "if I hear of anyone suddenly discovering -emergency business ashore, the man who does it better get fitted for a -sludgemonkey's suit, because that's what he'll be tomorrow. Clear?"</p> - -<p>Each of the executives assumed some version of a cheerful, courageous -attitude. They looked ghastly, even to themselves.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Muhlenhoff stalked into his private office, the nerve-center of the -whole bulkheaded works.</p> - -<p>In Muhlenhoff's private office, you would never know you were 1800 -meters below the surface of the sea. It looked like any oilman's -brass-hat office anywhere, complete to the beautiful blonde outside the -door (but whitefaced and trembling), the potted palm (though the ends -of its fronds vibrated gently), and the typical section chief bursting -in in the typical flap. "Sir," he whined, frenzied, "Section Six has -pinholed! The corrosion—"</p> - -<p>"Handle it!" barked Muhlenhoff, and slammed the door. Section Six be -damned! What did it matter if a few of the old bulkheads pinholed and -filled? The central chambers were safe, until they could lick whatever -it was that was corroding. The point was, you had to stay with it and -get out the oil; because if you didn't prove your lease, PetroMex -would. Mexican oil wanted those reserves mighty badly.</p> - -<p>Muhlenhoff knew how to handle an emergency. Back away from it. Get a -fresh slant. Above all, <i>don't panic</i>.</p> - -<p>He slapped a button that guaranteed no interruption and irritably, -seeking distraction, picked up his latest copy of the <i>New New -Review</i>—for he was, among other things, an intellectual as time -allowed.</p> - -<p>Under the magazine was the latest of several confidential -communications from the home office. Muhlenhoff growled and tossed the -magazine aside. He reread what Priestley had had to say:</p> - -<p>"I know you understand the importance of beating our Spic friends to -the Atlantic deep reserves, so I won't give you a hard time about it. -I'll just pass it on the way Lundstrom gave it to me: 'Tell Muhlenhoff -he'll come back on the Board or on a board, and no alibis or excuses.' -Get it? Well—"</p> - -<p>Hell. Muhlenhoff threw the sheet down and tried to think about the -damned corrosion-leakage situation.</p> - -<p>But he didn't try for long. There was, he realized, no point at all in -him thinking about the problem. For one thing, he no longer had the -equipment.</p> - -<p>Muhlenhoff realized, wonderingly, that he hadn't opened a table -of integrals for ten years; he doubted that he could find his way -around the pages well enough to run down a tricky form. He had come -up pretty fast through the huge technical staff of Atlantic. First -he had been a geologist in the procurement section, one of those -boots-and-leather-jacket guys who spent his days in rough, tough -blasting and drilling and his nights in rarefied scientific air, -correlating and integrating the findings of the day. Next he had -been a Chief Geologist, chairborne director of youngsters, now and -then tackling a muddled report with Theory of Least Squares and -Gibbs Phase Rule that magically separated dross from limpid fact ... -or, he admitted wryly, at least turning the muddled reports over to -mathematicians who specialized in those disciplines.</p> - -<p>Next he had been a Raw Materials Committee member who knew that -drilling and figuring weren't the almighty things he had supposed them -when he was a kid, who began to see the Big Picture of off-shore leases -and depreciation allowances; of power and fusible rocks and steel for -the machines, butane for the drills, plastics for the pipelines, metals -for the circuits, the computers, the doors, windows, walls, tools, -utilities. A committeeman who began to see that a friendly beer poured -for the right resources-commission man was really more important than -Least Squares or Phase Rule, because a resources commissioner who -didn't get along with you might get along, for instance, with somebody -from Coastwide, and allot to Coastwide the next available block of -leases—thus working grievous harm to Atlantic and the billions it -served. A committeeman who began to see that the Big Picture meant -government and science leaning chummily against each other, government -setting science new and challenging tasks like the billion-barrel -procurement program, science backing government with all its tremendous -prestige. You consume my waste hydrocarbons, Muhlenhoff thought -comfortably, and I'll consume yours.</p> - -<p>Thus mined, smelted and milled, Muhlenhoff was tempered for higher -things. For the first, the technical directorate of an entire -Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, -fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and -maintenance appertaining thereto. Honors piled upon honors. And then—</p> - -<p>He glanced around him at the comfortable office. The top. Nothing to -be added but voting stock and Board membership—and those within his -grasp, if only he weathered this last crisis. And then the rarefied -height he occupied alone.</p> - -<p>And, by God, he thought, I do a damn good job of it! Pleasurably he -reviewed his conduct at the meeting; he had already forgotten his -panic. Those shaking fools would have brought the roof down on us, he -thought savagely. A few gallons of water in an unimportant shaft, and -they're set to message the home office, run for the surface, abandon -the whole project. The Big Picture! They didn't see it, and they never -would. He might, he admitted, not be able to chase an integral form -through a table, but by God he could give the orders to those who -would. The thing was organized now; the project was rolling; the task -force had its job mapped out; and somehow, although he would not do a -jot of the brainwearing, eyestraining, actual work, it would be <i>his</i> -job, because he had initiated it. He thought of the flat, dark square -miles of calcareous ooze outside, under which lay the biggest proved -untapped petroleum reserve in the world. Sector Fortyone, it was called -on the hydrographic charts.</p> - -<p>Perhaps, some day, the charts would say: <i>Muhlenhoff Basin</i>.</p> - -<p>Well, why not?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The emergency intercom was flickering its red call light -pusillanimously. Muhlenhoff calmly lifted the handset off its cradle -and ignored the tinny bleat. When you gave an order, you had to leave -the men alone to carry it out.</p> - -<p>He relaxed in his chair and picked up a book from the desk. He was, -among other things, a student of Old American History, as time -permitted.</p> - -<p>Fifteen minutes now, he promised himself, with the heroic past. And -then back to work refreshed!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Muhlenhoff plunged into the book. He had schooled himself to -concentration; he hardly noticed when the pleading noise from the -intercom finally gave up trying to attract his attention. The book was -a study of that Mexican War in which the United States had been so -astonishingly deprived of Texas, Oklahoma and points west under the -infamous Peace of Galveston. The story was well told; Muhlenhoff was -lost in its story from the first page.</p> - -<p>Good thumbnail sketch of Presidente Lopez, artistically contrasted -with the United States' Whitmore. More-in-sorrow-than-in-anger -off-the-cuff psychoanalysis of the crackpot Texan Byerly, derisively -known to Mexicans as "El Cacafuego." Byerly's raid at the head of -his screwball irredentists, their prompt annihilation by the Mexican -Third Armored Regiment, Byerly's impeccably legal trial and execution -at Tehuantepec. Stiff diplomatic note from the United States. Bland -answer: Please mind your business, Senores, and we will mind ours. -Stiffer diplomatic note. We said <i>please</i>, Senores, and can we not let -it go at that? <i>Very</i> stiff diplomatic note; and Latin temper flares at -last: Mexico severs relations.</p> - -<p>Bad to worse. Worse to worst.</p> - -<p>Massacre of Mexican nationals at San Antonio. Bland refusal of the -United States federal government to interfere in "local police problem" -of punishing the guilty. Mexican Third Armored raids San Antone, -arrests the murderers (feted for weeks, their faces in the papers, -their proud boasts of butchery retold everywhere), and hangs them -before recrossing the border.</p> - -<p>United States declares war. United States loses war—outmaneuvered, -outgeneraled, out-logisticated, outgunned, outmanned.</p> - -<p>And outfought.</p> - -<p>Said the author:</p> - -<p>"The colossal blow this cold military fact delivered to the United -States collective ego is inconceivable to us today. Only a study of -contemporary comment can make it real to the historian: The choked -hysteria of the newspapers, the raging tides of suicides, Whitmore's -impeachment and trial, the forced resignations of the entire General -Staff—all these serve only to sketch in the national mood.</p> - -<p>"Clearly something had happened to the military power which, within -less than five decades previous, had annihilated the war machines of -the Cominform and the Third Reich.</p> - -<p>"We have the words of the contemporary military analyst, Osgood -Ferguson, to explain it:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>"The rise of the so-called 'political general' means a decline in the -efficiency of the army. Other things being equal, an undistracted -professional beats an officer who is half soldier and half politician. -A general who makes it his sole job to win a war will infallibly -defeat an opponent who, by choice or constraint, must offend no voters -of enemy ancestry, destroy no cultural or religious shrines highly -regarded by the press, show leniency when leniency is fashionable at -home, display condign firmness when the voters demand it (though it -cause his zone of communications to blaze up into a fury of guerrilla -clashes), choose his invasion routes to please a state department -apprehensive of potential future ententes.</p></div> - -<p>"It is unfortunate that most of Ferguson's documentation was lost when -his home was burned during the unsettled years after the war. But we -know that what Mexico's Presidente Lopez said to his staff was: 'My -generals, win me this war.' And this entire volume does not have enough -space to record what the United States generals were told by the White -House, the Congress as a whole, the Committees on Military Affairs, -the Special Committees on Conduct of the War, the State Department, -the Commerce Department, the Interior Department, the Director of the -Budget, the War Manpower Commission, the Republican National Committee, -the Democratic National Committee, the Steel lobby, the Oil lobby, -the Labor lobby, the political journals, the daily newspapers, the -broadcasters, the ministry, the Granges, the Chambers of Commerce. -However, we do know—unhappily—that the United States generals obeyed -their orders. This sorry fact was inscribed indelibly on the record at -the Peace of Galveston."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Muhlenhoff yawned and closed the book. An amusing theory, he thought, -but thin. Political generals? Nonsense.</p> - -<p>He was glad to see that his subordinates had given up their attempt -to pass responsibility for the immediate problem to his shoulders; -the intercom had been silent for many minutes now. It only showed, he -thought comfortably, that they had absorbed his leading better than -they knew.</p> - -<p>He glanced regretfully at the door that had sheltered him, for -this precious refreshing interlude, from the shocks of the project -outside. Well, the interlude was over; now to see about this leakage -thing. Muhlenhoff made a note, in his tidy card-catalog mind, to have -Maintenance on the carpet. The door was bulging out of true. Incredible -sloppiness! And some damned fool had shut the locks in the ventilating -system. 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