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...American. General Arthur MacArthur, whose son was to loom even more largely in Filipino destiny, said of the guerrillas: Let's civilize 'em with a Krag rifle-and tried to. Then came years of civil rule, under strong and foresighted men like William Howard Taft and Henry Stimson. Taft's slogan was "The Philippines for the Filipinos." The U.S., which had always looked down its nose at colonial powers, persuaded itself that it was really engaged in a great anticolonial experiment: to make the Philippines "a show window of democracy...
Diplomatic Save. Lovett was one of many Wall Streeters (foremost: James Forrestal) who did outstanding work for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. Wise old Henry Stimson, F.D.R.'s Republican Secretary of War, drafted Lovett as Assistant Secretary of War for Air in 1941. The smooth-working, selfless Stimson team, which included Lovett and Chief of Staff George Marshall, became a legend of administrative efficiency and warm mutual loyalty...
...Marshall was named Secretary of State in 1947, he urged Lovett to come back from Wall Street to be his Under Secretary. Although Lovett was still recuperating from a serious operation, he came, commenting: "There are only three people to whom I can never say no -my wife, Henry Stimson and George Catlett Marshall." Half the time Lovett ran the department while Marshall was away in Europe. In 1948 Lovett was quick to see the implications of the Russian blockade of Berlin, strongly backed the Berlin airlift as a counterchallenge. A few months later he saved Harry Truman from...
When the war ended, Bundy left the plumbing, the pock-marked statues and military affairs, to resume the status of Junior Fellow at Harvard which he had been awarded in 1941. He did not stay for long because in 1946 he was invited to work with Henry Stimson, former secretary of War, on the later's memoirs...
Both Cord Meyer and McGeorge Bundy spent much of their time while Fellows away from Cambridge, Meyer as leader of the United World Federalists, and Bundy as co-author of Henry L. Stimson's memoirs...