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Three weeks after Japan quit fighting, Under Secretary of the Navy Artemus L. ("Di") Gates sent his resignation to Harry Truman. The President asked him to help out a little longer. Big, quiet, forceful Di Gates had left the presidency of Manhattan's New York Trust Co. as soon as the nation seemed to be getting into trouble, had served the Navy for four years and three months, first as Assistant Secretary for Air, then as the No. 2 man in the secretariat. Last week Di Gates finally began clearing up his desk-the President had agreed...
...Richard S. Edwards, on the one hand, and brilliant H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel, also a graduate of Princeton, ex-Wall Street attorney, on the other. Roosevelt lifted Hensel out of the Navy's Legal Department into an Assistant Secretaryship. There are many and various men around him: Artemus L. Gates, onetime Yale football captain, Navy pilot in World War I, ex-president of the New York Trust Co., a passionate airman and Forrestal's under secretary; political-minded John L. Sullivan (no kin to Boston's late Strong Boy), onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
Ernie King was opposed. It would take a hefty task force to move him (such as Navy Secretary Forrestal and President Truman combined), but such a task force was being assembled. One sparkplug of it was Assistant Secretary Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, who last week was boosted to Under Secretary, a spot in which he can make his voice heard. A thrice-decorated World War I pilot, "Di" Gates is a red-hot airman...
Coming back from the Oriental sea frontier of the U.S., Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, ace in World War I and now Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, said when he stopped off at Pearl Harbor: "We can never go back to prewar status. We have to keep permanent bases in the Marianas. Those islands . . . [should be] another Pearl Harbor . . . another Pearl Harbor 3,500 miles west of this place here...
...Artemus Gates and the Navy know that, as a backstop for the Philippines, the Marianas will be vital to the preservation of a Pax Americana in the Pacific...