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...Washington went Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, stern commander of the Fourth Army and the Western Defense Command when the West Coast shivered with Japanese jitters in the days following Pearl Harbor. Officials were cautioned to say nothing of his change of duty. Then somebody noticed that DeWitt's assignment was plainly and publicly listed in the new telephone directory. His new job: first commandant of the new Army & Navy Staff College for special training of higher-ranking Army, Navy and Marine officers in combined operations...
...hope that one of the offensive steps will aggravate the Jap into sending out his battleships and carriers. They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
...Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt C. ("Duke") Ramsey, an oldtime pilot now commanding a task force in the South Pacific, eased the disappointment of the Navy's air zealots...
...jammed the air with commercials ballyhooing how "impartial scientific tests conducted by The Reader's Digest showed Old Golds contain less nicotine than any other well-known brand." People who remembered how microscopically small was the puff given Old Golds by the Digest and knew how strongly Editor DeWitt Wallace feels about exaggerated ads (his magazine accepts no ads at all) wondered how long it would be before he cracked back...
This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...