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...this time it looked as if Butch LaGuardia might get his trip to Italy, notwithstanding objections from Congress or from War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, who fears that LaGuardia would be too hot to handle in Italy. Still Butch would not talk...
Hastily the President appointed a Cabinet committee to consider the problem. The members: Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau. The Cabinet committee met three times in three days, just before the President was forced to leave for Quebec. Messrs. Hull and Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau program to strip Germany. Both agreed that such a super-Versailles would only justify a future German generation in once more uniting to plan revenge. They wanted rigid controls, for many years to come, but they wanted Germany, for centuries the economic center of Middle Europe, put back on its economic feet. They only wanted...
Henry Morgenthau, talked down in this session, went ahead on his own. Suddenly Messrs. Hull and Stimson learned that Morgenthau was in Quebec. Neither Mr. Hull nor Mr. Stimson enjoy a basic Morgenthau advantage-(for years Henry Morgenthau has always had Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Henry L. Stimson, whose weekly press conferences are Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...
...sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What shape of heads? This collection will give to history a personal piquancy...