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Said War Secretary Henry L. Stimson: The nation must get set for heavy casualties, "perhaps in the very near future...
Said 75-year-old Secretary of War Henry L Stimson of an untruthful report that Cinemactresses Kay Francis and Martha Raye had been interned in Africa:* "I regret to say that I am not an expert on the movements of movie actresses...
...days he governed the State. After Tom Dewey's inauguration Jan. 1, Poletti was jobless three days, then on Jan. 4 was taken care of by the New Deal. The job: "special assistant" to War Secretary Stimson. Of his new duties Charles Poletti said: "I don't know what they are. What difference does it make...
Said President Roosevelt in his message to the 78th Congress: "I do not prophesy when this war will end". Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "On all fronts the outlook is favorable, but the situation does not justify extreme optimism. The German and Japanese forces have suffered relatively few major reverses. We would do very well not to overlook the offensive capabilities that still are theirs...
Little new or revealing evidence of those ten tense years is placed before the observer; the events appear in much the same light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility...