Editorial: Young Harry at the front
Governor Dewey, with his “accent on youth,” spoke in his acceptance speech of “stubborn men, grown old and tired and quarrelsome in office” at Washington. There are such.
But we cite you one old man in office who is neither tired nor quarrelsome, and only stubborn about things that involve principle.
Henry L. Stimson, the Secretary of War, will be 77 come September. He has just flown to Italy and is now inspecting our troops there.
He is a Republican. Over some protest from fellow Republicans, he took a hard job in his old age. He has served in a statesmanlike manner, without partisanship.
We wish him a safe return from the front.