Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Civilian Aides from 44 States, nine corps areas were called to Washington to be educated by Secretary of War Stimson. In Army headquarters in the rambling wartime Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier, General George Catlett Marshall. What they saw was a rangy, lean (182 Ib.) six-footer in negligently neat mufti, a field soldier with reflective blue eyes, a short, pugnacious nose, broad, humorous mouth, a stubborn upper lip. What they heard was a dry, impersonal voice, setting out with simple precision...
...fellow Republican Colonel Henry Stimson-also a veteran of World War I, onetime Secretary of State and of War, a glacial, recondite student of foreign affairs-the President's appointee as Secretary of War, appeared before the Senate Military Affairs Committee for the same purpose...
...Said Mr. Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that...
...double the patrols along the Canadian and Mexican borders, Congress appropriated $1,600,000. Scared of everything to do with war, several Congressmen denounced Mr. Roosevelt's approval of the sale of new Navy "mosquito boats" to Great Britain, his Cabinet appointments of Stimson and Knox, both known to be somewhat more than pro-Ally...
...Yale's students, 1,486 of whom had petitioned President Roosevelt to keep out of the war, these were alarming words. No less alarming were those of Henry L. Stimson (three days later nominated Secretary of War), who arrived in New Haven to urge fellow Yalemen to support compulsory military training, and of Yale's President Charles Seymour, who on the radio urged repeal of the Neutrality Act and all possible aid to Britain...