ADMIRAL LEAHY
MADE CHIEF OF STAFF TO PRESIDENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 21. It is learned that President Roosevelt has appointed Admiral William D. Leahy, former Ambassador to Vichy, as his Chief of Staff. The President himself is Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. Mr Roosevelt said the assignment would relieve him of many' details incident to the war. Admiral Leahy was a man in whose judgment he had full confidence.
Admiral Leahy, who is aged 67, served in the Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrectionist war, Boxer trouble, Nicaraguan occupation, Haitian campaign of 1916, and the Mexican punitive expedition. He advanced through the grades to captain in the first World War. In 1937 he became Chief of Naval Operations, and was appointed Governor of Puerto Rico in 1939, and Ambassador to France in 1940. He returned to Washington “for consultations” during one of the recent Vichy-United Nations crises.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1942, Page 3
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