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Induction orders will be issued by the local boards in the ratio of new registrants to old, Secretary Stimson said recently...
Secretary of War Stimson added a significant footnote. Said he: "The only way I know to prevent these attacks is to mass our forces in offensive action and carry the war to the enemy." And that, he said, is exactly what the U.S. means...
President Roosevelt gave the Army control over certain movements of U.S. citizens and resident aliens alike, authorized Secretary of War Stimson to throw anyone out of a "military area" whenever he saw fit. The order was not martial law-not quite. But from California, tense over its 98,000 alien-and-American-born Japs, came an audible sigh of relief. Washington had apparently waked up at last to the West Coast...
...other inoculations,* the entire U. S. Army is to be vaccinated against yellow fever. Secretary Stimson gave the order last week. The vaccine, developed in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation, is made from yellow-fever virus grown on chick embryos. One dose immunizes against the deadly, mosquito-borne disease for at least two to three years...
Having been officially pronounced responsible for the disaster of Pearl Harbor, Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short asked Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would...