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Reasons: the number of diplomatic decisions to be made are piling up; and the Republican convention meets in Chicago on June 26. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt announced the appointment of Republicans Stimson and Knox on the very eve of the G.O.P. convention, successfully stealing the headlines. On convention eve, 1944, dopesters guessed, he may be making headlines on the white cliffs of Dover...
Knox's death at 70 was the first in Franklin Roosevelt's war cabinet, though as the New Deal has aged it has become increasingly a gerontocracy.* (Four other cabinet members are in their seventies: Stimson, 76; Hull, 72; Jones and Ickes...
...only welcoming I have done for some time has been welcoming Germans and Italians into hell. I have ... got about 177,000 there." (The total of Axis soldiers killed by all Allied soldiers in Tunisia, Sicily, and the opening weeks of the Italian campaign as announced by Secretary Stimson, on Oct. 29, was about...
...Washington, Secretary Stimson quickly and emphatically pointed out that Patton spoke only for himself...
...when the Army's men, headed by Secretary of War Stimson, had testified, the Navy uttered a "No." Navy Under Secretary James Forrestal said that the Navy was "definitely in opposition" to any immediate step toward merger. Whether merger after the war would be acceptable Mr. Forrestal was not prepared to say. The Navy, he explained, thought the whole matter needed "a most objective and thorough study." With Navy opposition and Congressional indecision, the merger may be a long time coming...