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After Pearl Harbor Charles Lindbergh had offered his services to the Government, to airplane builders. Nothing came of it. In January Secretary of War Stimson said Lindbergh was being considered for a technical job. But nothing came of that either...
Last week Henry Ford invited the wrench man to Detroit, lunched with him, pointed proudly at Willow Run, offered the onetime hero a "supervisory" job. Lindbergh said he must ask the War Department. In Washington Secretary Stimson nodded. Lindbergh begins work this week...
Leave It? A premature news dispatch (to the Chicago Sun) disclosed the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that air and ground forces were there "in considerable numbers." Difficult terrain, great sea distances, an aroused army and population-all these made Australia a tough target for the Japs. Nevertheless, one consideration could drive them to hazard invasion now: the conviction that, unless Australia is conquered or isolated, it will become a United Nations base for air, naval and land offensives to recapture the southwest Pacific...
...widespread notion that the Army had adopted the European system of calling men up by age groups rather than by number was spiked last week by War Secretary Stimson. The lottery system still prevails. If the Army wants a new batch of soldiers, they will be gathered from the rolls of all three previous registrations in proportion to the number of them in each pool, and low-number men will be the first selected...
...Washington, Navy's Secretary Knox smiled indulgently and cracked: "Just a false alarm." Army's Secretary Stimson challenged him by reading to newsmen a report from Chief of Staff Marshall stating flatly: "As many as 15 planes may have been involved." One Army theory was that the planes came from commercial fields, were operated by enemy agents to locate gun positions and to slow up production by causing a blackout. The ships, said the report, were flying at heights ranging from 9,000 to 18,000 feet...