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President Roosevelt this week picked another Navy man to represent the U.S. on a delicate foreign mission. As Ambassador to Moscow he chose a wise, elderly Rear Admiral, William Harrison Standley. Like Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy in Vichy, Admiral Standley is a onetime Chief of Naval Operations...
...United States, headed the commission and gave its report a judicial tone. The rest of the commission was well equipped to supply professional understanding: Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, Major General Frank R. McCoy (retired); retired Admirals Joseph M. Reeves, himself a onetime CINCUS, and William H. Standley, onetime Chief of Naval Operations...
Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
...Grey-haired, spectacled Admiral William Harrison Standley (retired), Chief of Naval Operations from 1933 to 1937, who thinks "it is our war as much as Britain...
...various unofficial feelers poked the U. S. in the ribs. Playing on its one theme, William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies crusaded up & down the land. In Chicago it held a mass meeting of 14,000 people, to whom Admiral William H. Standley (U. S. N. retired) declared: "We should throw more and more ships, air planes, munitions . . . into democracy's fight against Hitlerism." The White Com mittee, which pounded home the idea of sending 50 destroyers to help England on the seas, last week proposed sending 25 Army Boeing Flying Fortresses...