Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace had hit the services like another Pearl Harbor. But, as War Secretary Stimson pointed out, there were "2,250,000 trained Japanese soldiers in the home islands alone, and an equal number" in other Pacific and Asiatic territory. The U.S. must disarm these men, and ships that nose into Japanese islands must be combat-loaded...
...monitors on the Pacific Coast, and teletyped to Washington. It was nothing that a President could formally discuss with his Allies, or reply to. But a man could talk about it. The President wanted to talk to somebody, and he immediately summoned four men: Admiral Leahy and Secretaries Byrnes. Stimson, Forrestal...
...Paris, a truck-driving G.I. read a Stars & Stripes headline: STIMSON SAYS HE'LL RECHECK TO SEE IF THE ARMY CAN BE CUT. Muttered the soldier: "He goddam better...
...Secretary Stimson merely said that the new weapon would "prove a tremendous aid" in shortening the conflict. The men in the know-the scientists racing for the secret of atomic energy, the very few military men who were aware of the race-had said that the winner would have the power to win this war and all wars. Now the U.S. had the power, and had it in combat quantities...
Principal credit for the fruitful channeling of this rich source of brainpower, announced Secretary of War Stimson, belongs to "the genius and inspiration" of slight, dark Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 41, of the University of California and California Institute of Technology...