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...Washington Secretary Stimson announced that Army reinforcements (ground and air) had been sent to Guadalcanal under command of Major General Millard F. Harmon...
...Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, last week telegraphed the following order to Colonel Hugh J. Knerr, a retired Army airman: "Articles written by you, quotations attributed to you in the writings of others, and the resulting comments and discussions, oral and printed, have been detrimental to the War Department's efforts to foster an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation between the Army and the Navy, which is essential to the successful prosecution of the war. You are therefore directed to refrain from all public, written and oral comment on the conduct of the war and on questions...
...Said Mr. Stimson, explaining this stiff directive: "The U.S. Government does not pay the officers of its Army and Navy to fight with each other in time of war. It pays them to fight with the common enemy in full and harmonious cooperation with each other. Colonel Knerr, although retired, is still...
...Navy were very far from "real and harmonious cooperation," that the Navy was principally to blame, that the Navy was strangling the full use of air power (TIME, June 1). Last week he canceled a lecture at Milwaukee's Town Hall, but later received permission from Secretary Stimson himself to resume his magazine writings and lectures within the limits of proper discretion. Whether these limits, as fixed by the War Department, left him anything to talk or write about, Colonel Knerr had yet to learn...
WASHINGTON--Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the United States greatest air ace in World War I and a confidential adviser to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson in this one, is overdue on a flight between Oahu, Hawaii, and another Pacific island, the Army announced tonight...