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...defeat the Japanese in the end," said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, "but we shouldn't look at the war with them through rose-colored glasses...
Secretary Stimson has had a record of Tightness about the Japanese stretching back to 1931, when, as Secretary of State, he condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in terms far stronger than the rest of the diplomatic world was prepared then to accept. As Secretary of War he has personally been guilty of no cocky bombast, has indulged no huggermugger secrecy, has, instead, been frank, grave, honest. And so his words last week deserved a hearing...
...spite of the chilly statement of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, fortnight ago, that the Army will soon accept no more volunteers, the War Department went right on recruiting; and the rush to enlist continued through the third week...
Just ten years ago the Japanese press went wild at a report that Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson had accused the Japanese Army of "running amuck." Stimson had never made the statement-but he had every right to. Here is the record of Japanese aggressions beginning...
...press conference next morning, President Roosevelt had nothing to say. He referred newsmen to the Secretary of War. At the War Department, spry old Secretary Henry L. Stimson said: "What would you think of an American general staff which . . . did not investigate and study every conceivable type of emergency . . . and every possible method of meeting that emergency...