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...Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson left Potsdam for home and told reporters at Frankfurt that the conference was working on "discrepancies...
...100th day as U.S. President, Harry Truman emerged from the secrecy-fenced Potsdam compound of the Big Three meeting (see INTERNATIONAL). He had a ceremonial job to do in Berlin, and he evidently relished doing it. Along with War Secretary Stimson and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton and Clay, he went to witness the raising of the official U.S. victory flag* over the headquarters of the U.S. Group Control Council...
Ahead of Harry Truman, and behind him, were other Americans and Britons who had come to sit with the Russians at Potsdam: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, General of the Army George C. Marshall, Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson - finally, in the 14th plane, Winston Churchill himself...
...Stimson, 77, soldier of World War I, veteran of many a diplomatic battle, enlightened and nonpartisan elder statesman. Henry Stimson was astonished by the "shopworn catchwords and objections." Said...
This week the Army & Navy prepared to move up their heavy artillery. Scheduled to testify were War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, and probably many of the generals recently returned from Europe. To spearhead its argument, the Administration will depend on General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, the man who, although hating war, raised and trained the army which is helping to win World War II. General Marshall's often-expressed views on peacetime conscription are adamant: he is for it with no reservations...