Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody made cracks about the Navy Department moving across the Potomac into the Army's sprawling, 42-acre Pentagon Building (even Secretary of War Stimson cracked: "The lion and the lamb are preparing to lie down together"). Then some Navy employes found on their desks an official-looking memorandum on U.S. Fleet stationery. Excerpts...
Exposure. When, after a year's patient work, the picture was clear and complete, Washington acted. On June 30, 1942 U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude G. Bowers presented a 20-page memorandum to the Chilean Government which suggested politely that the existence of such a spy network was not only a violation of Chilean sovereign rights as a neutral but a menace to the entire Western Hemisphere...
Last week General Ulio memoed again: "Memorandum No. W600-6-42, this office, Aug. 27, 1942, subject as above, is rescinded...
Fateful Effects. Never before had North Africa seemed so near and so vital. From Cairo to Washington and London went a momentous memorandum, listing the danger to Britain's last hold on the Mediterranean: the fateful effects if Germany, by finally winning North Africa, achieves a junction with the Japanese and cuts the chief supply line from the U.S. to Russia and the U.S. Army's air-ferry lines to India and China. It recited the enormous value of the Allies' North African bases, within air reach of the Middle East, Russia and southern Europe (where...
...nightfall, when the doors were closed, only six or seven men were left filling out the many blanks and cards, and they were hustled along by various attendants. Included for the first time was an official application blank for the army ROTC course, accompanied by an explanatory memorandum from their headquarters in Wadsworth House, once General George Washington's base of operations. Also among the assorted pamphlets and information folders was a booklet addressed to "new students" on "Suggestions for Effective Study" produced by the Bureau of Supervisors...