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Other members: Secretary of State Cordell Hull (see col. 2), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury), Henry L. Stimson (War), Frank Knox (Navy), Claude Wickard (Agriculture), Jesse H. Jones (Commerce) and the Attorney General of the United States (when that vacancy is filled). Henry Wallace will appoint an executive director to assist him, was expected to name 44-year-old Winfield William Riefler, New Deal economist, a professor at Princeton University since...
...grey bangs newly barbered, his coat collar fitting as badly as ever, Secretary of War Stimson paced into his press conference with a glint in his usually glintless eye. He had something up his sleeve: a postcard. To 40 correspondents and Army officers, stewing gently in Washington's summer steam heat, he made a couple of routine announcements, then cleared his throat and waited for questions...
...Stimson read White's letter aloud, then showed the press a similar card, sent to Lieut. Alfred T. Hearne at Fort McIntosh, Tex. Had Mr. Secretary any comment on these exhibits? Yes, he had jotted down something. From a typewritten flimsy he read: ". . . It is necessary to keep this force in existence . . . peril still exists. ... At this moment, a circular is sent out which will have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With...
Snorted Isolationist Wheeler: "One can probably excuse Secretary Stimson on the ground of his age and incapacity. Everyone . . . knows that the old gentleman is unable to carry on the duties of his office and some go so far as to say that ... he is gaga. ... If it is near treason to ask the President to keep his sacred promises . . . then ... I am guilty of 'near treason," whatever that may be." He admitted that 1,000,000 cards had been sent out under his Congressional frank, declared that: 1) the America First Committee had paid for the printing...
Three days later, Wheeler made a full-dress reply in the Senate. He declared that the President had "joined the wolves of war in their slanderous attack," that Stimson " with deliberate cunning . . . created the utterly false and spurious impression that I had circulated this franked card principally among selectees...