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...TIME blushes, thanks Reader Cohen, sends a memo to Clio...
...inhaled inconsistencies. Evjue fights on labor's side, but is always fighting with labor. To compose his bristling editorials, he stomps around the office, dictating at the top of his voice to a stenographer across the room. His staffers can't trust him to keep a confidential memo out of print, and take massive doses of his abuse. They had to plead for years to get "desks big enough for three-syllable words." But they never get fired...
...send you . . . Headquarters Antilles Department Memo No. 2, dated 3 January 1946. . . . "SUBJECT: WEARING OF SHOES
...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 Hull who, at about the same time, dictated a statement that too many misguided people were dabbling in U.S. foreign relations...
Only a clear-cut top policy decision in Washington could clean up the mess. The "Committee of Three" could not make it. Secretary Byrnes drafted a memo setting forth the conflicting State and War Department views...