Word: memorandums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before OSS began to function, Bill Donovan was convinced that such an agency should be set up, to work not only in war but in peacetime. In 1941 he sent a confidential memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining a plan...
...memorandum was placed in evidence showing that Captain Zacharias had personally warned Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in the summer of 1941, that the Japs would start war with a sneak air raid on Pearl Harbor on a weekend-"probably Sunday morning...
...public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators watched the Japanese planes scooting northward to their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers of testimony was a memorandum from ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, written shortly before Pearl Harbor, recommending that Japan be bought off. Morgenthau was willing to lend Japan $2 billion, give her an immigration quota and "most favored nation" status, reduce U.S. naval strength in the Pacific. The memo was passed on to Secretary of State...
...blink. Sailors and marines were involved; so were WAVES and civilians. It was happening in phone booths, on the ladders, even in the middle of the corridors. To tough-minded Captain C. F. Behrens, executive officer, it was a matter for emergency action. He drafted a stern, four-paragraph memorandum: "Lovemaking and lollygagging are hereby strictly forbidden...
Jimmy Byrnes's approach to a China policy had been frankly tempered by U.S. political implications, and he had put down his warnings in a memorandum to President Truman. The Secretary knew that a forthright, cooperative policy toward Chiang would bring down on the Administration the wrath of 1) those who could see no good reason for keeping U.S. forces in China; 2) those "liberals" and leftists who saw the solution of the China problem not in control by Chiang, but in control by the Chinese Communists...