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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Lieut. Commander Stassen made things a little easier for Joe Ball. To Secretary of the Navy Knox he wrote saying he would do nothing to seek the nomination, but would "consider it to be my plain duty to accept...
...seems to me there is something broader and more fundamental than any personal acquiescence as between you and me over matters of public policy and fundamental principles. In this great crisis of our nation's history we must all seek some common ground upon which we can meet and have confidence. ... If we cannot trust one another in this tragic period . . . how can the people trust...
...seek the answers to such momentous and difficult questions as these, the formation of a commission was announced this week under the chairmanship of President Robert Maynard Hut chins of the University of Chicago. No one could doubt that answers were badly needed...
...events continue on their present course, the Poles in London may be too slow in bowing to broad Russian hints that they reorganize their Government, purge it of outspokenly anti-Russian influences. The British may find it impossible to chivvy their Polish allies into a change. The Russians may seek contact with whatever Polish elements the Red Army uncovers as it moves into Poland proper, proclaim these elements as the true Polish Government with or without the inclusion of the Communist Union of Polish Patriots in Moscow...
When Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt left OWI last week, he had faithfully kept his three promises of last June: 1) to serve as "a people's advocate" inside the Government; 2) to squeeze real news out of the war agencies instead of participating in the fancy hide-&-seek game of domestic "propaganda"; 3) to go home after six months...