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Chomping a sizable slice of humble pie, Secretary of War Stimson last week apologized to Senator Wheeler for his "near treason" blast of the week before, admitted that he had gone off halfcocked...
...Senator had risen to defend Stimson. A Senator's honor had been impugned; "the most exclusive gentlemen's club in the world" felt itself insulted...
...Secretary said he no longer believed that the Senator had intended to send his post cards directly to draftees. Said the Secretary: "I am sorry that on the basis of incomplete evidence, I made a statement last week which carried a contrary implication." Wheeler, readying another blast against Stimson (on the extension of draftees' terms of service), replied: "I think it was a very decent thing for the Secretary to do." By that time the Senator had a second Cabinet apology-this one from Secretary of the Navy Knox. Wheeler's son, Richard, had applied for admission...
Secretary of War Stimson last week called this innovation "one of the most significant changes of weapons for the Army that has ever taken place." But it is still a future change. Army Ordnance Designer John C. Garand, who developed the Army's new rifle, has an experimental model of the new carbine almost ready for final tests. So has a commercial firm, whose identity the Army wants to keep secret until tests are completed...
...interventionist editorials came out in 65% of the press in the average week. But the weekly percentage fluctuated widely around the average. In the week of May 3, following sharp demand for convoys, interventionist sentiment in the U.S. press skyrocketed to 73%. The following week, when Secretary of War Stimson urged use of the U.S. Navy for convoying, the closer prospect of war brought interventionist sentiment tobogganing...