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...this straight: the idea of not having an editorial page in the Service News didn't come from University Hall, and it didn't come form the U. S. Navy either. In a memorandum constituting the Service News in the spring of '43 the editors of the CRIMSON recognized that 'maintaining the independence of the Service News from the Army and the Navy will be a difficult task, especially since cooperation with the Services is to vitally important," and therefore decided that it would be dangerous for the HSN to publish editorials...
Even before OSS began to function, Bill Donovan was convinced that such an agency should be set up, to work not only in war but in peacetime. In 1941 he sent a confidential memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining a plan...
State, War and Navy were dead set against the kind of independence which Donovan proposed for an agency which would inevitably exercise great influence on foreign policy. They wanted the control. Opposition to Donovan's plan became so bitter that someone even slipped his memorandum to the Patterson-McCormick press. The New York Daily News howled that the Government intended to set up a "spy director," a U.S. Gestapo and in some manner turn the nation over to the sister of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators watched the Japanese planes scooting northward to their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan $2 billion, give her an immigration quota and "most favored nation" status, reduce U.S. naval strength in the Pacific. The memo was passed on to Secretary of State...
...blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...