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The first hints were not long in coming. Outside the White House photographers approached Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who had taken no part in the campaign. "Haven't you got enough pictures of us?" asked the secretary. Said a photographer: "Yes, but another four years is just beginning...
Forrestal. The document was placed before Forrestal one noontime while he was having lunch with his three service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Most of the men around the table were flabbergasted and appalled. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall went back to his office, called Forrestal four hours later and gasped: "My God, Jim, do you know what that means? That is virtually a declaration of war."
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order...
Two days later, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky strode to the rostrum. In his best prosecutor's fashion, he once more listed U.S. citizens whom he considered warmongers (Secretary James Forrestal, Senator Styles Bridges, et al). Vishinsky proposed an international control body under the Security Council (where Russia has...