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...Navy Secretary Frank Knox (TIME, Dec. 22) had been reassuring in the frankness of its admission that the U.S. forces in Honolulu were "not on the alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
...next U.S. Ambassador to Mexico will be one of the State Department's ablest, busiest career diplomats. For last week President Roosevelt chose George Strausser Messersmith, now Ambassador to Cuba, to succeed Josephus Daniels in Mexico City...
...Uncle Joe." When Franklin Roosevelt sent his old Chief to Mexico in 1933, there were riots in Mexico City. Mobs stormed the streets, plastered angry posters on walls. But Mexicans quickly calmed down when they saw Josephus Daniels, heard his speeches, realized that he was an oldtime apostle of free silver and agrarian reform...
...Mexico City this week Josephus Daniels wound up his affairs, made his last round of diplomatic calls. Next week he returns to the U.S. to work on the last two volumes of his memoirs, The Woodrow Wilson Era and The New Deal and the Good Neighbor Policy. (Already published: Tar Heel Editor and Editor in Politics...