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...promoted the Duke of Gloucester twice in one day, from air vice marshal to air marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school in The Bronx. Civilian Defense Director Fiorello H. LaGuardia turned down a WPA "national defense project": study of the home...
...began when Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner reported last month that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference one day last week, a reporter asked Colonel Knox whether the Navy's new policy meant that if U.S. ships ran afoul of Nazis between the U.S. and Iceland they would start shooting. For reply, the Secretary quoted Franklin Roosevelt's words: "I have . . . issued orders . . . that all necessary steps be taken...
Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard rushed cross-country to his 360-acre Indiana farm when he heard his special breed of hogs was doing poorly, declaring he'd show the veterinarians a thing or two. ∽∽ Joseph Alsop, who gave up his syndicated Washington column to join Naval Intelligence, was ordered to India. ∽∽ Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, the President's longtime personal secretary, lay ill of neuritis in a Washington hospital, planned a month's rest when...
...Secretary went further. Reporters also asked about the truth of a report by Columnists Alsop & Kintner that a U.S. destroyer on Atlantic patrol dropped depth bombs on a German submarine. The Secretary was really sore this time. Roared he: "I don't know where they got their information, but I know that it was a terrible thing to print it, right or wrong...
...reporter came back to the main question: Was the Alsop & Kintner story true? Answer: "I wouldn't tell you if I knew it to be true." But the Secretary did not say it was false...