Panic on the Pacific: How America Prepared for the West Coast Invasion by Bill Yenne

Author:Bill Yenne [Yenne, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781621575542
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2016-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

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The Boss Out Here

“After a face-to-face chat with Gen. John L. DeWitt, the boss general in the Western States, I feel on good authority to tell you—nothing,” Tom Treanor of the Los Angeles Times wrote in his March 4 column. He had gone north in the nervous “morning-after” mood that possessed his city of the fuss and fracas of February 25.

“Not only do I feel free to tell you nothing, I am ordered to tell you nothing,” Treanor reported. “Gen. DeWitt said that when there is something to be told he will tell you himself. He seems accustomed to obedience, so the chances are I will obey him. Even a secrecy-sealed encounter with Gen. DeWitt is worth a trip to San Francisco. In a military way, he holds us all in the palm of his hand. His is the authority to do what the situation calls for in the Western theater. On his skill and judgment rests the efficiency of our defenses. He is the boss out here.”

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