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...from the manpower muddle was a belated equivalent of War I's "work or fight" order. First proposed last October by Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, the replacement of drafted war workers by noncontributing 4-Fs was now suddenly endorsed by General Hershey, Secretary of War Stimson, Under Secretary Robert Patterson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard. The Army & Navy would still like a National Service Act, which is politically impossible to get. They fall back on Congresswoman Luce's bill. Some dopesters thought it unnecessary, thought a public listing of 4-F idlers...
...Washington, War Secretary Stimson pronounced the epitaph on the latest Allied attack: "The simple fact is the Germans stopped...
...case might have ended there, if Loury from his cell had not appealed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Negro Judge William H. Hastie, onetime aid to War Secretary Stimson and dean of the Howard University School of Law, and New York Congressman Vito Marcantonio, took up the case. Evidence which had been presented in Noumea courts and affidavits showed, they said, that Loury and Fisher had been railroaded...
Annapolis-educated Colonel Knerr (who transferred to the Army after three years of service as a naval officer) was saying what most officers of the Air Forces believed and were glad to hear. But his insistence became embarrassing. Finally Secretary of War Stimson listened to Navy's angry gripes. In October 1942 he publicly muzzled angry Critic Knerr...
...Washington Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, without naming Fuller, took time out to retort testily that the campaign had been a "great strategic victory." The truth, more probably, is somewhere in between...