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Unlike most other nations, the U.S. has no stated policy governing international communications; it has been content to let anyone set up a radio, telephone or cable company, let free competition determine the outcome. Last week, Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal told Congress that this way of doing things was...
Gravely and seriously, Navy Secretary James Vincent Forrestal, who had seen the first awful days of Iwo himself, sat down ta reply:
Navy Secretary Forrestal called Joe Rosenthal, who took the picture, "as gallant as the men going up that hill." In San Francisco, Rosenthal's draft board switched him from 4-F (bad eyes) to 2-AF (essential deferment) because the picture entitled him "to a classification better than 4...
It was his first appearance there in 26 months. The gallery was packed. Ranking diplomats were there and Administration bigwigs; in front-row gallery seats sat Eleanor Roosevelt and Daughter Anna, notepaper in hand. The floor, too, was filled: Representatives (some holding youngsters in their laps), Senators and all the...
Tokyo's radio had said of General Kuribayashi that he knew every rat hole on Iwo. Extermination was proceeding normally, but cleaning out those holes, yard by yard, would add to the high cost of highly strategic Iwo. Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal reported this week that the cost...