Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who know the details of what Hopkins does form a small circle indeed?Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admirals King and Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike...
...last week the "near future" appeared to be perceptibly nearer. In Washington War Secretary Henry L. Stimson-as if in answer to mounting Allied calls for action*-referred unequivocally to "a Russian winter offensive." Washington newsmen attributed to "Soviet spokesmen" a promise of a large-scale offensive aimed at the Polish plain, reported that its starting date had been confided to the U.S. and Britain (the Soviet Embassy denied any such promises...
...Army game of passing the buck has to end somewhere. Overall Army policy is made in Washington by War Secretary Stimson, and General Marshall, Hap Arnold, other members of the General Staff...
...captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...
...Stimson rejected a Harvard University group's request to make an educational survey among captive soldiers and to send literature and lecturers into prison camps...