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Judge Denman accused John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, of the new crime of "bureaucratic omniscience" for coming to DeWitt's defense. He prepared a petition to Congress, printed 5,000 exhibits of a letter he had written McCloy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Judge v. General | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...case of the People v. DeWitt might presently reach Congress in the shape of a petition demanding redress. Months of controversy had climaxed in a set of high crime & misdemeanor charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Judge v. General | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Inferno. The plaintiff was chalk-haired, Roman-featured Federal Judge William Denman, 69-year-old chairman of World War I's U.S. Shipping Board. Jurist Denman accused General DeWitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Judge v. General | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Through San Francisco's summer fog flickered a fire, kindled under an office chair. The fire was set in an effort to burn the britches off the U.S. Army's most important Western administrator, tight-lipped Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Judge v. General | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Judge v. General | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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