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Sirs: With what glee certain egocentric commentators and papers unfriendly to our Allies seize upon the Lisbon leak to castigate Reuters and attribute, by inference, that it was Britain's perfidy again...
Secretary of War Stimson apparently had intended to release a few Bari details at his weekly press conference. But after the Post story, newsmen found him sizzling. His anger seemed greater than was justified by a mere premature news "leak." He was brusque, stiff, and cut the conference short. When a reporter wanted to know if the Allies had actually been caught napping, Stimson snapped: "No! I will not comment on this thing...
...excited over the prospect of a shower that yields water at Dillon Field House. The H. A. A. got wind of it and had the leak repaired immediately...
...school was organized in June of 1942 as one of the most hush-hush of all Harvard's war activities, but news about it began to leak out around the end of the year, and Time Magazine told the complete story of the school in January of this year. The commander officer of the school is Lieutenant-Colonel John Hoflin...
...operation are the darkest of secrets. During that censored number of days when she lies in Pearl Harbor being prepared for her next excursion, yarns are spun at the officers' club ashore and at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, where submariners are quartered between patrols. But few stories leak out to the newspapers. In no other realm of naval warfare is stealth so important, secrecy so vital. Only gradually has the Navy released the names of some of the skippers, the quietly tough young men who run the lean black ships in the tradition of John Paul Jones...