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For the conferences, the President was flanked by the most impressive group of high-ranking military and Government officials he has yet taken to an international conference. For the military sessions there were Generals Marshall and Somervell, Admirals King and Leahy, Vice Admiral Land of the Maritime Commission, and Major...
Meanwhile the U.S. press began playing at evasions, adding up small facts for its readers but stopping short of real information. Washington newsmen, who had watched Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Hopkins, Ed Stettinius, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger disappear frcm town, were nettled to read about it in...
The President read a report from Secretary Stimson. He asked Jimmy Byrnes to reiterate the needs of industry. Admiral King spoke briefly. George Marshall made the strongest appeal of all.
"The biggest fake quasi-officially presented to the American people today is the suggestion that Mr. Acting President James Byrnes is 'studying' the question of sports to determine if it will be necessary to close the professional games in order to solve the manpower problem. . . .
"Mr. Byrnes could gain more manpower by closing the bars in the single city of New York at 9 o'clock each night than he could gain by closure of all professional sports in America. . . . There could be no point in asking for the few thousands of men in...