Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal had made no bones about the fact that he wanted to resign, but beyond that he was keeping his plans strictly to himself. He was bitterly .opposed to the Army-Navy merger-many a Washington politico guessed that the President's advocacy of the plan would hasten his departure from office. But whether Forrestal returned to private life after the holidays, or stayed on until the merger fight was finished, sources close to the White House were confident that his successor had been picked...
...idea of making the Navy a career. ... In conducting a poll, I have found that out of 3,000 midshipmen at most 500 plan to accept commissions and stay in the Navy as career officers. The feeling is strongest in the upper classes, who unreservedly advise all underclassmen to resign now while there is yet time to return to colleges where they can learn...
Logistics & Morale. The problem of recapturing Manchuria from the Communists, to whom the Russians consistently resign control by the handy process of an early withdrawal before the National forces can arrive, seems largely one of communications and supply until Mukden is reached...
...another blast went off: the British Communist Party demanded that Bevin resign his Cabinet post, charged that his policies toward the Soviet Union and "new peoples' governments of Europe" were merely a continuation of Tory policies...
...Teachers and educational officials who have been dismissed, suspended, or forced to resign for liberal or antimilitaristic opinions or activities will be declared immediately eligible for ... reappointment. ¶ "Discrimination against any student, teacher, or educational official on grounds of race, nationality, creed, political opinion or social position, will be prohibited. . . . ¶ "Students, teachers and educational officials will be encouraged [in] unrestricted discussion of issues involving political, civil and religious liberties...