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...attacked Poland, Sept.1, 1939, Franklin Roosevelt reached over the heads of 34 senior officers to make Marshall Chief of Staff, wearer of the four stars of a full general and, as events turned, one of the principal architects of victory in World War II. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson called him "the finest soldier I have ever known...
Bundy, who has been serving as visiting lecturer on Government, will be an associate professor of Government. Before coming to Harvard, he was a consultant for the E.C.A., and was co-author with Henry L. Stimson of the latter's memoirs...
MacArthur added that, in his opinion, "the greatest political mistake we made in a hundred years in the Pacific was in allowing the Communists to grow in power in China. I think, at one stroke, we undid everything, starting from John Hay, through Taft, Leonard Wood, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Stimson, and all those great architects of our Pacific policy. I believe it was fundamental, and I believe we will pay for it, for a century...
...prove the effectiveness of this type of law education, Frankfurter mentioned the late Henry L. Stimson LL.B. '90, Secretary of War during World...
...accident the Stimson and his half-dozen helpers all came from this school, or that military affairs in the last war were run so well. These men dealt with problems far removed from the classroom, yet they were using the intellectual equipment they acquired at Harvard...