Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the President changed signals after his conference with Churchill. Perhaps something persuaded the State Department that Marshal Pétain's radio plea for closer Franco-Nazi cooperation (TIME, Aug. 25) might be just another effort to appease Hitler with promises instead of warships and bases. There was a bigger, simpler reason: the French seemed to be turning ever more violently against Darlan's Nazi-philes. Such a time was no time for the U.S. to seize a French island...
...Deal? In the last few months, as Marshal Pétain has edged steadily closer to the Axis, Gaston Henry-Haye has taken the place once occupied by Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
...spite of Washington whisperings about his age, principally on his own Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
Biggest danger in the idea of a separate air force, according to ground-gripping Army men, is that an autonomous air arm would go its own sweet way, leave the rest of the Army up in the air. Last week The Army Air Forces, closer to independence than the air arm ever was before, tried to calm such fears. It announced the organization of five Air Support Commands, designed specifically to back up ground forces with everything from reconnaissance to bombing support...
...average week. But the weekly percentage fluctuated widely around the average. In the week of May 3, following sharp demand for convoys, interventionist sentiment in the U.S. press skyrocketed to 73%. The following week, when Secretary of War Stimson urged use of the U.S. Navy for convoying, the closer prospect of war brought interventionist sentiment tobogganing...