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...Stimson and Knox. In New Haven one night last week Henry Stimson, Secretary of War under President Taft. Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover, laid down a line for U. S. foreign policy and defense: military conscription, shipments of planes and munitions to Great Britain, the use of the U. S. Navy to convoy shipments if necessary. It was an effective speech...
...Next day the Senate clerk read out the names of President Roosevelt's two nominations for his Cabinet-for Secretary of the Navy: William Franklin Knox of Chicago. Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 1936, supporter of the President's foreign policy; for Secretary of War: Henry Lewis Stimson...
There was a moment of stunned silence after the names were read: Isolationist Senator Clark of Missouri leaped up and cried. "Who?" If there was an opportunity to debate calmly the merits of Republicans Stimson and Knox in a Democratic Cabinet, the opportunity disappeared in the feverish political atmosphere of Convention Week. Senatorial debate grew bitter, reached a new low in wild charges and venomous insinuations, punctuated with cries of warmongering from Isolationists, and virtual accusations of treason from West Virginia's lame-duck Rush Holt. Both the Naval Affairs Cormmittee and the Committee on Military Affairs decided...
...merits of the nominees were another matter. Along with Chief Justice Hughes, Mr. Stimson ranks as a leading contender among U. S. Elder Statesmen: a Yaleman, Skull and Bonester, Harvard lawyer, understudy of the late, great Elihu Root, he had not only had a lucrative law practice but had found time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor...
...only a political innocent could have assumed, last week of all weeks, that the appointments of Republicans Knox and Stimson would be debated on their merits. And few were likely to accuse Franklin Roosevelt of political innocence...