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...General Marshall and I went to the White House, where we were until nearly half past one. At the meeting were Hull, Knox, Marshall, Stark, and myself...
Unlike the splendor of Rome's parallel gesture, the Geneva meeting was stark and austere. Only the colorful garb of an Anglican bishop here & there relieved the somber black-robed meeting of hundreds of Protestant churchmen. From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief...
...Roosevelt then tried to contact his Naval Chief, Admiral Harold R. Stark. "Betty" Stark was at the theater. The President decided not to disturb him lest it cause "public alarm...
This eerily accurate prediction was one of the few nuggets of new information produced by the investigation in a week of prospecting old diggings: ¶ Admiral Harold R. Stark, 1941 Chief of Naval Operations, admitted that he did not believe Pearl Harbor would be attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department...
...committee. Their point: if he, as chief of the Navy's war plans section, was so positive about war and where the blow would fall, why were all the other topmost admirals out of step with him? Admiral Turner considered himself the chief adviser of Admiral Harold R. Stark, then chief of naval operations. But "Betty" Stark, in mid-October 1941, had written to Kimmel: "I do not believe that the Japs are going to sail into us." Reminded of that letter, Kelly Turner was unperturbed. Said he: "I was very astonished when I first saw that." He also...