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Eight boarders, among them William Barton 1L, Robert Scheffield 1L, MacVicker Snow 1L, and Charles E. Stimson, Jr. 1L, escaped unhurt...
...bride left waiting at church, the World Bank was still looking for a president. Worried over its loss of prestige, the Bank last week desperately ogled another candidate: John Jay McCloy, 51, high-priced Manhattan lawyer who had been an efficient Assistant Secretary of War under Henry L. Stimson...
Basing his remarks on ex-Secretary of War Stimson's recent article in Harper's Magazine, President Conant discussed the military requirements which forced the use of the bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Nothing would have been more damaging to our effort to obtain surrender than a warning or demonstration followed by a dud--and this was a real possibility. We had no bombs to waste," he said...
...list of targets was presented to Stimson for his approval. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were doomed...
...Face of Death. Henry Stimson did not see how any man could have done otherwise "and afterwards looked his countrymen in the face." Did his apologia have "a harsh and unfeeling sound?" He reflected: "As I look back over the five years of my service as Secretary of War I see too many stern and heart-rending decisions to be willing to pretend that war is anything else than what it is. The face of war is the face of death. . . . This deliberate premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice...