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...fiscal '40 the number of messages jumped 77% over the year before. Since the invasion of the Low Countries they have averaged a million words a month. At night Secretary Hull carries reports home with him; the military and naval reports go to Secretaries Stimson and Knox. The three who receive this vast mass of up-to-the-minute information made it clear at the Lend-Lease hearings that they were in favor of positive U. S. action, at least to keep Britain from falling if possible...
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee filed Cabinet Members Stimson, Hull, Morgenthau, Knox, who had all spoken before the House committee two weeks before. To the Navy's Knox, Lindbergh's statement that a peace might be negotiated without a victory on either side was "wild fancy." "Peace without victory is possible only when . . . the belligerents feel that the peace terms will be faithfully carried out by all parties." Only hope for U. S. peace, said Knox, was the defeat of Germany. Otherwise, the U. S. would eventually have to fight for control of the seas. By means...
Said the Army's Stimson: "The . . . emergency which aggressor nations have created . . . must be met . . . with the flexibility . . . which ample authority . . . alone can afford." The bill would permit the President to send immediately a small but vital supply of weapons from stock. Roosevelt had sent outmoded weapons to Britain to re-equip her Army after the disastrous evacuation from Dunkirk. Said Stimson: "It's very possible we're sitting here quietly today largely because that step was taken...
...about the last call for lunch," Stimson warned, "to carry out by non violent efforts the defense of our country. . . . We are buying - not lending. We are buying our own security while we prepare. . . . We are buying time...
Last week answers were given to five Administration spokesmen-Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Stimson, Knox and OPM Director General Knudsen-who fortnight ago said on behalf of the Lend-Lease Bill that the U. S. was in imminent danger if Britain fell (TIME, Jan. 27). Summoned by Republican minority members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opponents who did not believe that the U. S. would be greatly endangered if Britain fell paraded in & out of a jampacked committee room, thumping desks, shaking heads, pointing fingers, answering one overstated case with equal overstatements. The committee was prepared to report the bill...