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...worked as hard as ever. In the week he had 72 appointments. He also: ¶ Visited the Pentagon Building for a mysterious meeting which caused endless rumors (see above...
...afternoon last week, just a few hours before the opening of the world security conference in San Francisco, President Harry Truman grabbed his mouse-colored fedora, rushed out of the White House to a waiting limousine. An aide called airily to newsmen: "We're going to the Pentagon, if you want to come along." Three reporters, representing the press associations, followed...
...Pentagon, the newsmen found they could not follow the President so easily. He was whisked immediately to the super-secret second-floor communications room, which has direct radio-telephone connections to London, SHAEF, and to field operations. Into the room also went General Marshall, Admirals King and Leahy, Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew, and War Secretary Stimson. The conference lasted an hour and 40 minutes. When it was over, President Truman, now aware of the sensational appearance of his trip, seemed to regret that newsmen had been notified. But they had sent bulletins long before...
...days, official Washington attempted to play down the conference. At his press conference, Secretary Stimson twinkled to reporters: "You thought you saw the President [at the Pentagon] when you only saw his astral body." Yet the rankest cub reporter knew that something big was cooking, and the rumors began, to fly. And not all the rumors were wild: some of the information came from unquestionably well-informed-although unnamed-sources. The hottest report: Heinrich Himmler had offered to surrender unconditionally to the U.S. and Great Britain...
...fast-growing U.S. Air Force in the Pacific was still without a permanent boss. Last week the Army airmen in the Pacific got one. Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, 52, ranking member of the Army's only set of general twins,* cleared out his desk in the Pentagon Building and went off to what will become the biggest air-combat job left in World...