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...have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...
Onetime A.E.F. artillery captain, Jack McCloy has been in Washington since September as special assistant to War Secretary Stimson. Manhattan Private Banker Robert Abercrombie Lovett was appointed Assistant Secretary of War for Air, a spot that has been vacant since Herbert Hoover's time. As a special assistant, thin-cheeked Bob Lovett, wartime naval aviator and wearer of the Navy Cross, has been hard at work since De cember on Air Corps problems, carries the hope of Army airmen that he will give them the kind of representation they need in high Army councils...
...Visiting the camp in February, aging Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson congratulated all hands on progress made. Next day the contractor and engineer were fired...
...House of Representatives Hatton Sumners, chairman of the potent Judiciary Committee, made the jhigh-pitched suggestion that "enemies of this nation, in the factory or elsewhere," be sent to the electric chair. Secretary of War Henry Stimson, with hoarse urgency, spoke of organizing home guards (now that the National Guard was in the Army) to suppress "any labor disorders...
...good soldier first, Colonel Donovan reported first to his Commander-in-Chief, Franklin Roosevelt, and to the chiefs of the U. S. fighting forces. Colonels Stimson and Knox. By the time he had shuttled back & forth between Manhattan and Washington several times and hidden out to write a radio speech, Colonel Donovan's trail was cold. But when finally his story did leak out, as stories always do in Washington, it was still hot. For Wild Bill Donovan was one man in the U. S. who was satisfied he knew how the war was being fought and what...