AMERICAN NAVY
New Secretary Appointed LONDON, May 10. President Roosevelt has selected Mr. James Forrestal to be Secretary of the United States Navy in succession to the late Colonel Knox. Mr. Forrestal, who has been acting as Secretary, is 52 years of age, and hah been Under-secretary of the Navy for four years. He is known as a “big navy” man. He favours the maintenance of the navy at its present size after the war, also compulsory peacetime military service. He is a Democrat, but not an active politician. A former president of a New York city investment and banking house, he enlisted in the navy in the last war as a second-class seaman and became a lieutenant in naval aviation. He has a reputation for anonymity and announced that he was discontinuing Colonel Knox s custom of twice-weekly Press conferences, but will see the Press “when there ;s news to release.” The appointment 'S widely applauded.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 5
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157AMERICAN NAVY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 192, 12 May 1944, Page 5
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