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Henry Lewis Stimson made a bit of history last week. The Secretary of War briskly opened, conducted and closed a press conference in nine minutes flat. Despite the Washington heat, the electric fans in the War Department council room had been turned off, so that the 73-year-old Secretary could clearly hear the reporters' questions. Said he, with staccato conciseness...
This news was a little startling in view of the U.S. Army Air Corps' shortage of instructors, training ships, school facilities for its own 30,000-pilots-a-year program. A reporter asked whether the training of Britons would slow up U.S. training. Mr. Stimson's brusque and optimistic answer...
...training schools for U.S. civilian fliers, and 1,000 of the 8,000 British students would be, not pilots, but navigators (whom Pan American Airways is to train at Miami). The question, "Does this program mean that all British pilots will henceforth be trained in the U.S.?," Mr. Stimson let a subordinate answer...
...first time, Washington newsmen saw and heard tall, fawn-eared Robert Abercrombie Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, in action at a Stimson press conference. Mr. Lovett said that Great Britain at present trains about 10,000 pilots a year in the British Isles,* told the reporters to draw their own conclusion-evidently blockaded Britain will have to lean heavily on the U.S. for pilot training...
Squelched last week by Secretaries Stimson and Knox were church-backed bills to prohibit liquor sales near Army and Navy centers...