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...plan that had been put forward, by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had roused the violent objections of Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson. The President was said to be leaning toward the Morgenthau side...
...Secretary Stimson spoke out last week in favor of legislation to create a new, five-star rank in the U.S. Army. (The Senate has already passed a bill creating such a rank for the Navy.) The Army, like the Navy, thought it was time. U.S. generals are diffident about it, but they would like to break through the traditional ceiling of four stars-not for the extra glitter but for practical reasons...
What to call the new rank? Stimson generously left that up to Congress. "General of the Armies" is held sacred to ailing, 84-year-old John J. Pershing, for whom the title was created by special Act. "Marshal" is a title to which George Marshall might personally object. "Admiral of the Fleet" might do for a five-star sailor...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt had been busy with conferences pointing toward Quebec. He appointed Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau as a special Cabinet committee to work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date...
Questioned in Washington, Secretary of War Stimson declared: "I have had no more information . . . than was published from SHAEF.* That announcement stated that the moves were ordered as a consequence of the rotation policy now in effect, a policy which is caused by the great number of correspondents who must be taken care of in the theater...