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When that laconic message crossed his desk in 1932, Secretary of State Henry Stimson asked: Who is Willis? A look at the files revealed that Willis was Frances E. (for Elizabeth) Willis, 33, third secretary in the U.S. legation in Stockholm. In the absence of the minister and his top subordinates, Frances Willis had become the first woman ever to represent the U.S. abroad as a chief of mission, even an acting chief of mission...
...assessment and prediction. He had been promoted to major general. About three months later he became a lieutenant general, and TIME commented: "Top commander of the A.E.F. is Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 51, whose promotion to the top ranks was one of the cheering signs that War Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff Marshall had abandoned promotion by seniority, had long been digging deep in the Army files for the best...
Bundy came to Harvard for a short time following the war, but left to aid Henry Stimson in editing his memoirs...
...Roosevelt's position was ambiguous. Stimson had been defeated; the Colonel had further alienated the Old Guard, and his tacit support of Taft had alarmed the insurgents. "To St. Helena,' cried his opponents, predicting that the name of Theodore Roosevelt would be but a memory...
...suggest that a plan which horrified Secretary Hull and Secretary Stimson and Secretary Byrnes, found a supporter in Mr. Conant," Flynn said, "and I submit in all fairness that if our purpose now is to rekindle the bonds of understanding between the German people and ourselves . . . and the Western World the last man to send to Germany to carry out that mission is the man who was probably the first eminent figure in the educational and intellectual world to publicly support...