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...last week the "near future" appeared to be perceptibly nearer. In Washington War Secretary Henry L. Stimson-as if in answer to mounting Allied calls for action*-referred unequivocally to "a Russian winter offensive." Washington newsmen attributed to "Soviet spokesmen" a promise of a large-scale offensive aimed at the Polish plain, reported that its starting date had been confided to the U.S. and Britain (the Soviet Embassy denied any such promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: End of the Lull? | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Navy Secretary Forrestal, "in the best interests ... of the U.S.," labeled the report of his special court "top secret" and "secret" and locked it up. Mr. Stimson did the same. He was convinced, he said, that any other course would hurt the war effort, and even jeopardize American lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Top Secret | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Full Responsibility. Messrs. Stimson and Forrestal, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, had also given citizens something to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Top Secret | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...captured German soldiers in the U.S. may give the Nazi salute, paste up small pictures of Adolf Hitler, drape the coffin of a departed comrade with the swastika banner. This situation understandably exasperates many U.S. citizens. Last week a letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson suggested that the U.S. Army is well aware that it has the potential core of a future fascism on its hands, that it has already taken many preventive steps lately requested by outraged civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Converts? | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...Stimson rejected a Harvard University group's request to make an educational survey among captive soldiers and to send literature and lecturers into prison camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Converts? | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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