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Said his superior, Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Commander of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army: "That operation . . . was completed within the designated time, without mischance, with minimum hardship and almost without incident...
Only a few days before the Army's Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt, Chief of the Western Defense Command, had conferred at Sitka with the Navy's Commander A. J. Isbell-and the photograph, suddenly appearing out of the Navy's rigid Alaskan censorship, had been the only clue to an Alaskan action...
...Christian Churches, Quaker Frank Aydelotte, "Y" General Secretary Eugene Epperson Barnett, 16 college and seminary presidents (headed by Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds and Union's Henry Sloane Coffin), ten Methodist bishops, five Episcopal bishops, and such other ecclesiastic bigwigs as John R. Mott, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edgar DeWitt Jones, Roy G. Ross, Daniel A. Poling...
...General DeWitt, as he has right along, kept mum. As military dictator over 12,000,000 apprehensive citizens in eight States and Alaska, General DeWitt was credited by the Army with having done a superb administrative job. Since Pearl Harbor, without fuss, he has moved thousands of Coast Japanese to places of safekeeping for the duration, has closed race tracks, bidden Pasadena's big Rose Bowl game go East...
...root of the trouble lies General DeWitt's tight-tongued refusal to make his plan public. The trouble seemed to lie in the Army's tell-the-people-nothing attitude...