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Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asserted: "The terrible lessons of this war should convince every thoughtful American that responsible military preparedness is the only means by which peace and security . . . can be maintained...
...road a mile-long column of German vehicles traveling bumper to bump er was caught by Allied attack planes, which smashed or burned nearly every one. In Washington, Secretary Stimson declared that the amount of wrecked or abandoned German transport in some places was actually hampering Allied prog ress. Mr. Stimson added with a twinkle in his eye that this was a kind of delay "to which our ground forces could be easily reconciled...
Died. Bronson Winthrop, 80, Manhattan Old Guardsman, onetime partner of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in the famed Manhattan law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; in Syosset, Long Island...
...contrast to 1940, when he stole headlines by appointing Henry L. Stimson and the late Frank Knox to Cabinet posts just four days before the Republican Convention...
...resigned because he said the War Department failed to live up to its promises to give Negroes more vital jobs to perform, especially in the Air Forces. He charged that General "Hap" Arnold would have busted all Negroes out of the Army Air Forces if War Secretary Stimson had not intervened...