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...public servant who has always accepted the facts of war as facts of life is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. In pre-Pearl Harbor days he drove isolationist Congressmen to frenzy with his blunt warnings of imminent danger. Last week he spoke out again, on the much-evaded, politically ticklish question of drafting 18-to-20 year olds...
Said Statesman Stimson: the U.S. has never yet fought a great war without drafting its youths of 18 and 19 and its younger married men.* In World War II, these classes will have to be drafted again-not within the next few months, but certainly some time. Mr. Stimson's statement was the War Department's answer to the nauseating optimism of Congressman Andrew J. May (TIME, July...
...Commander of the A.E.F. is Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower, 51, whose promotion to the top ranks was one of the cheering signs that the War Secretary Stimson and Chief of Staff Marshall had abandoned promotion by seniority, had long been digging deep down in the Army files for the best...
...officers and men at Fort Knox cheered Major Lodge's news from the front. Then Senator Lodge looked to Massachusetts where, even with the inadvertent pat from Henry Stimson, he has a tough fight ahead to save his Senate seat from aggressive young Representative Joseph E. Casey (TIME, July...
General Chu and Claire Chennault will certainly have at least 500 planes, and have them soon, if War & Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...