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With Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson the reason is both age and health. Now no cocktail party passes in the District without a new anecdote about the Secretary's dozing off in some important conference, of his inability to work more than a few hours a day, of his valiant but losing struggle to keep abreast of the demands of war in 1941. No reflections are made on his spirit, his mind, his will: the emphasis is on his years...
...Said War Secretary Stimson in a radio speech: "We have at our hands a naval instrument prepared and ready.... Right now at this crossroads of history it is within our power, if we choose to use that instrument, to turn the tide. ... If today that Navy should make secure the seas for the delivery of our munitions to Great Britain, it will render as great a service to our country and to the preservation of American freedom as it has ever rendered in all its glorious history...
...least a year will pass before we can have an Army and an air force adequate to meet the air and ground forces which could be brought against us. . . . We have ... a naval instrument prepared and ready. ... So said Secretary of War Stimson last week. Army and Navy officers add some important qualifications to this estimate, but in general they agree with Mr. Stimson...
...Navy is indeed ready, within the limits of Mr. Stimson's meaning. He meant Atlantic convoy, and the Navy has the ships for that duty in itself. But he did not mean that the U.S. Navy was ready to take on all the Axis powers in two oceans. If it were, the U.S. would not now be desperately building a second-ocean Navy which is four to six years from completion...
...Armored Force (two divisions) now doubling, and soon to triple, many & many another example of conquered difficulties, great accomplishment. Against the physical, visible facts of that record, the sum total of delays and mistakes seems picayune. Army men need not blame themselves when they accept Secretary Stimson's estimate that they are at least a year from readiness for modern...