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...people whose hands opened the messages, and whose eyes read them, a few days later read a statement made by War Secretary Henry L. Stimson. On the performance of U.S. troops in the Tunisian campaign, the Secretary said: "Inferences which have been made from the facts by commentators and others in the press have not been quite fair to the American troops...
...facts, said Mr. Stimson, were that U.S. troops had made an "important contribution" to a British victory. General Patton, said the Secretary, had been ordered not to try to cut between Rommel and Von Arnim...
Secretary Stimson need not have been alarmed. The next of kin of those 5,372 men could be proud. In bleak North Africa those men had given, with their blood, fierce determination to their comrades in arms and humility to their people at home...
This still left a loophole for the duck-bottomed little Mayor: he could become a colonel without Senate confirmation. New howls were heard. Forthwith Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that the Mayor was rendering such useful service in New York that...
...Henry L. Stimson, 75, studied the generals' reports at his desk...