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Letters from wets descended on Senators. Sample: "Good Lord! . . . Please, oh please!" When War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox came out flatly against the Lee Amendment, Senators at last saw the light. They voted (49 to 25) to send it back to the Military Affairs Committee "for further study...
...Tokyo made a prodigious fuss about the captivity, trial and punishment of U.S. flyers who fell into Japanese hands after the bombing of Tpkyo. With the caution accorded only to vital international questions, Secretary Stimson and the U.S. State Department left the question of retaliation for future settlement. ^ Ottawa reacted with equal sensitivity to news about the handling of German prisoners in Canada...
...recognized as essential by every fair-minded citizen; but when the enemy is able, on the other hand, to truthfully contradict statements issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle stated that "no planes were left behind in Japan." It is now known that several planes were forced down in Manchuria and other Jap-held regions. With...
...Stimson's telegram and statement gave Army officers public notice of what some of them had already been told: that they were not to discuss Army-Navy relations in any way, anywhere, with anybody. That Army-Navy relations had reached a stage of noncooperation requiring such orders was an unhappy fact which Mr. Stimson had now officially written into the record...
...relief to the soldiers in the bar of the Grand Pacific Hotel at Suva when Secretary of War Stimson announced last week that there were U.S. troops in the Fiji Islands. They had begun to worry about being legally admitted to this war. Not long ago a lugubrious major, shaking his head over his first highball after several weeks in the jungle, had observed: "We might go all the way through the war and nobody would ever know we're here. Nobody but the Japs. The other day the Navy radio was checking its time with Greenwich, when Tokyo...