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Happily for the press, one capable U.S. newsman was on deck: Presidential Secretary Steve Early, an old A.P. hand. He not only helped get out the Big Three's communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since...
...President's personal entourage included his physician and aides, Press Secretary Steve Early, Daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, and Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn who, the White House was quick to announce, "went along as an old friend and took no part in the conferences...
...Washington, the Office of Censorship, catching up with one small part of the week's rumors, finally admitted that Hopkins was abroad. At the White House, newsmen badgered ex-Newsman Jonathan Daniels, filling in for Steve Early as press chief, reminded him that they had been scooped by London on Casablanca, scooped by Reuters in Lisbon on Cairo, scooped by Moscow on Teheran. Mr. Daniels, harassed but sympathetic, would not even agree with the Office of Censorship that Harry Hopkins was out of town...
...Most Regrettable." Eleanor Roosevelt, who had previously spoken well of Blaze ("a most noble-looking dog") in her syndicated column, said she was shocked. Presidential Secretary Steve Early averred that it was all "a most regrettable combination of errors." A.T.C.'s Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation. Dallas' well-named Bonehead Club tried and failed to airmail a St. Bernard back to the White House. Many a plain U.S. citizen, ears ringing with the week's officially urgent pleas for more manpower, less unnecessary travel, etc., sat down to write an angry letter...
This week, the War Department arranged to send brusque, bustling White House Secretary Steve Early to SHAEF as trouble shooter. Franklin Roosevelt's press handyman, whose ancestors include Confederate General Jubal Early, was a staff member on World War I's famed Stars & Stripes, used to be a newspaperman himself...