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...until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet. He knew the move would be linked with the GOP convention which followed it, instead of the fall of France which preceded it. Said he: "I will be shot at from all sides, damned and denounced [but] I am an American first...
...Washington the civilian heads of the armed services announced that the manpower problem is still unsolved-and growing worse. In a joint statement War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox and Maritime Boss Emory Land pointed out that before year's end the armed services must have 1,400,000 more men, almost all to be drawn from essential industries. Meantime, they pointed out, critical industries are short of manpower right now. Aircraft plants need 200,000 workers, navy yards 5,000 for construction of submarines alone, radio and radar factories 30,000, synthetic-rubber plants...
Said Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land: "This nation sacrificed 60 bombers and 600 men to cripple the German ball-bearing plant in Schweinfurt, but it cannot obtain the workers here at home to fill the production lines of our own bearing and foundry industries...
...Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...
Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace and, on occasion, envoy extraordinary for Secretary of War Stimson: "Sorrow will come to a million American homes...