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...George V. Strong, Assistant Chief of Military Intelligence, report that German air strength was greater than in 1939, that continued bombings had not broken German morale, and that Hitler had almost three times as many field combat divisions as in the autumn of 1939. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson keynoted...
...best newspapermen," read the President, "resent this sea of hint and rumor. . . . The worst and most irresponsible deliberately exploit it-as the Patterson and McCormick newspapers are constantly doing...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
They accused the Washington Times-Herald and its sister papers (Joseph Patterson's anti-New Deal, anti-British New York Daily News and Robert McCormick's ditto Chicago Tribune) of being "sleepless" in their efforts "to spread disunion among the Allies." As he read on, the President, obviously enjoying his ready-made answer, paused once to interpolate that the Herald Tribune is (accented) a respectable newspaper and to smile benignly at the HT's Washington correspondent, comfortable, spectacled Bert Andrews...
...work of Jack Reichart in a master of ceremonies capacity was one of the more professional contributions of the evening, and H. F. Donaldson's piano renditions as a warmer-upper were really good. The squirrelly skit by C. E. Weilepp, C. J. Patterson and J. L. Vlahos was a gem in itself, and appreciated as such...