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...Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, in Honolulu after a tour of the Pacific, well understood the danger in the Atlantic. Said he: "It would be unwise to be optimistic as to the submarine war in the Atlantic. There are losses ahead, but this is a victory we have got to win, and we will...
...Jimmy Byrnes enough of a fighter? What do the admirals think of Navy Secretary Knox-and what does he think of them...
...record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...Fort Knox...
Last week many sources reported that the Japanese were gathering in Rabaul a force even greater than the armada which in mid-November failed to retake Guadalcanal. The only dissident voice in the Allied chorus warning about the concentration was that of Navy Secretary Frank Knox, who said: "To my knowledge there is no such concentration." An anonymous Navy spokesman next day went out of his way to correct the Secretary by saying that both the Allies and the enemy are throwing great weight into the area and that increased activity may be expected any day. The concentration, it appeared...