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...week saw a great show of unity. Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "Decision to launch the Solomon Islands operation was made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in accordance with an agreed-upon plan and was not purely a Naval decision." Said Frank Knox: "[The Army] is cooperating in every possible...
Baldwin took due and disapproving note of the "arbitrary" geographical division of Pacific command between General MacArthur in Australia and Admiral Nimitz in the southwest Pacific (TIME, Nov. 2). Gentle though they were, Baldwin's understatements helped to needle Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson into declaring last week that the Solomons campaign was jointly planned in the map-walled room where the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet (see cut, p. 67). If so, collaboration in the early stages broke down somewhere between Washington and Guadalcanal. It was also clear that Army-Navy teamwork had improved in the later...
...marching becoming increasingly difficult because of confusion of commands and overcrowding, but marching even in ideal conditions is also becoming of doubtful value. Since exercise groups are extremely variable, improvement since last spring is imperceptible, the same maneuvers being repeated month after month. Adding to this the fact that Stimson has come out against pre-induction training, stating that the Army can do in days what schools and colleges fail to do in months, the future and even the present benefits of marching are decidedly dubious...
...Secretary Stimson said: "It is possible that a very few of the crew members were forced down in territory occupied by the Japanese when they ran out of gasoline, and have been captured." He said that the names given by the Japanese were similar to those on the official list of missing men. Later, when the Japs announced four more names, one was confirmed (Lieut. George Barr, of Queens Village...
...Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making the best of a bad bargain, namely, small enrollments composed of women...