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Weeks Is Named Head
Of Bar Association
To Succeed Powell
Maurice R. Weeks, 41, an attorney
with offices at 1931 Eleventh street
N W„ last night was chosen presi
dent of the Washington Bar Asso
ciauon to suc
ceed William A.
Powell, who
served the two
year limit.
Mr. Weeks,
who assumed of
fice immediately,
will appoint
chairmen for
about 12 commit
tees In the fall.
He Is a mem
ber of the law
firm of Caine,
Brown, Howard
and Weeks.
Mr. Weeks at
MaartM E. Kteki.
tended elementary scnooi ana uc
Witt Clinton High School in New
York. He took his pre-legal work
at Virginia Union University and
was graduated from the Terrell
I.aw School in June, 1938. The fol
lowing October he was admitted to
practice in the courts here.
Admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court in November, 1941,
Mr. Weeks is credited with being
the first Terrell graduate to hold
such distinction.
Mr. Weeks is married and his
wife is secretary to the Barristers’
Wives Association. The couple live
at 571 Twenty-third place N.E., and
have two daughters and a son.
Other officers selected last night
were Leroy H. McKinney, first vice
president: W. S. Thompson, second
vice president: George W. Peterson,
recording secretary, for the 15th
term; Austin L. Pickling, corres
ponding secretary, and Andrew J.
Howard, jr., assistant United States
Attomev, treasurer.
The executive committee includes
Hubert B Pair, assistant corpora
tion counsel: Mr. Powell: James G
Tvson, examiner for the Rent Con
trol Board, and E. Louis Ferrell.
Tire meeting was held in the law
library of the Recorder of Deeds
Building. Sixth and D streets N.W.
Richmond Gas Dealers
Cut Sales to Tourists
By the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va„ May 21— Rich
mond service station operators are
reported to be cutting gasoline sales
to out-of-State tourists in the face
of heavy demands which are squeez
ing the State's gas supply.
Retailers here estimated the supply
is 20 per cent under the amount
they can sell. They said they were
holding sales to out-of-State motor
ists to between five and eight gallons
in order to have enough gas to take i
care of regular customers.
The State Chamber of Commerce
said news of the cuts in gasoline
..ales to out-of-State drivers prob
ably would prove detrimental to the
tourist trade "if it got around.”
Order of Amaranth Plans
Benefit Party Tomorrow
Montgomery Court No. 12 of the
Order of Amaranth will hold a
benefit card party, fashion show and
fair from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. tomorrow]
at the Keiser estate, 1100 Rockville]
pike. I
Master of ceremonies will be’
Brooke Johns, chairman of the
Montgomery County commissioners.
General chairman is Mrs. Erwin
Snyder, 5511 Lambeth road, Be
thesda.
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Read for the FIRST time
The story of the war from inside
the White House, Whitehall and
Kremlin-the story MOBODY
else conid tell—
THE SECRET PAPERS '
OF HARRY L HOPKINS
by Robert E. Sherwood
Harry Hopkins, of all men, was closest to Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins and Franklin Roosevelt always at the innermost
core of the Allied High Command, knew as no one else in the
world knew the background strategy in the greatest of all wars.
Robert Sherwood, gifted author and dramatist who lent elo
quence to many of the Roosevelt speeches, was close confidant
of both of these men.
Today, Collier’s is privileged to begin publication of the long
awaited Hopkins’ Papers, fashioned by Sherwood into an intimate
and thrilling history of a fateful decade - an authentic, docu
mented presentation today of the facts that must be source
material for any future historians.
In Sherwood’s skilled hands the whole unforgettable era comes
alive in all its pomp and glory, its hopes and heartaches, its dis
appointments and defeats.
Hopkins has no counterpart in history or fiction. This strange
figure, “half man” as he was often called, could fly from a hospital
bed in Maryland to Churchill’s inner sanctum at Chequers, to
Stalin’s desk in the Kremlin, to his own bed in the White House
in a matter of days. All doors opened to him. No secret in the
Allied conduct of the war was kept from him.
In Hopkins’ Papers is the message he carried from F. D. R. to
Stalin when Hopkins flew to Moscow in the critical summer of
1941 just after Hitler’s surprise attack on the Soviet army:
I ask you to treat him (Hopkins) with the identical confidence
you would feel if you were talking directly to me.
In the Moscow talk that resulted, Stalin asked Hopkins to give
Roosevelt a personal message. Hopkins’ report began with this
significant sentence:
Stalin said Hitler's greatest weakness was found In the vast
numbers of oppressed people who hated Hitler and the im
moral ways of his government.
Hopkins’ ability to get a conference down to brass tacks won
Churchill’s admiration. Sherwood tells how the Prime Minister
once turned to Hopkins and said:
Horry! When this war Is over, His Majesty's government Is
going to reward you by Conferring upon you a noble title.
You are to be named "Lord Root of the Matter."
Of Hopkins, who had been with him at the Atlantic Conference,
Casablanca, Quebec, Cairo, Teheran and Yalta, Roosevelt said:
Harry is the perfect ambassador for my purposes. He doesn't
even know the meaning of the word "protocol" . . . When
he's talking to some foreign dignitary, he knows how to
slump back in his chair and put his feet on the confefence
table and say, "Oh, yeah?"
Singapore was falling. Hopkins, though ill, had stayed up all night
at Chequers where he and General Marshall were arguing with
Churchill for the opening of a Second Front in France. Next day
General Marshall had this cabled order from Roosevelt^^^^^^^
... please put Hopkins to bed and keep him there under
day-and-night guard by Army or Marine Corps. Ask His
Majesty (King George VI) for additional assistance if re
quired.
As far back as August, 1940, Roosevelt and Hopkins were specu
lating on invasion. Sherwood says:
Roosevelt and Hopkins were talking in the study at the
White House and Roosevelt, who was partieularly'interested
in the possibilities of amphibious warfare, drew a map of
the East Coast of the United States, locating the coastal de
fenses and explaining that they actually could defend less
than one and one-half per cent of our coast line. Roosevelt
pointed out that an enemy could land an expeditionary
force at any one of innumerable points on our shores and
therefore, if we were involved in war, it would be highly
desirable for us to land on the enemy shores first — as for
instance, the northwest coast of Africa. ^
Sherwood’s gifted pen keeps the home front drama of those days
marching in time with the rumblings of oncoming war. The Third
Term was in the offing. The Hopkins’ Papers reveal, for the first
time, that both F. D. R. and Hopkins planned to make Hopkins
President in the 1940 elections. Sherwood writes:
... Roosevelt expressed the belief that Hopkins would be
elected and would do the best job as President of any of
those then in the running ... Hopkins told a few friends? all
under oaths of strictest secrecy, that Roosevelt had definitely
given him the green light and the campaign was on.
Of the others considered as possible candidates at that time,
Sherwood writes:
The two-term tradition was so strong that it was assumed
by everyone, Roosevelt included, that there would be a new
Democratic candidate in 1940. The Presidential bees began
to buzz in a great many bonnets. Among those mentioned
as possibilities were Farley, Garner, Ickes, Cordell Hull,
Robert Jackson, Henry Wallace, Paul McNutt, Frank Murphy
and many others. Ickes has said that in Administration
circles in those days, "You couldn't throw a brick in any
direction without hitting a candidate."
Roosevelt considered Farley "clearly the most dangerous"
of the candidates.
You’ll find new sidelights on the Roosevelt character - as in this
excerpt from a personal note to the hospitalized Hopkins, penned
by F. D. R. just two weeks before D-Day:
I had a really grand time down at Bernie's (Baruch) — slept
twelve hours out of the twenty-four, sat in the sun, never
lost my temper, and decided to let the world go hang. Tho
Interesting thing is, the world didn't hang.
Here, in short, is America’s greatest drama, staged for Collier’s
readers by one of the most successful dramatists of our time.
Start THE SECRET PAPERS OF HARRY L. HOPKINS, by
Robert E. Sherwood, today.
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The War's All-Star
Cast of Characters
As The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins unfold
week after week in Collier’s, Robert Sherwood
recreates tne drama ot
those years with the all
star cast of the war’s
leading characters each
playing his own part.
Don’t fail to read these
most important docu
ments — and don’t fail
to start at the very be
ginning — in Collier’s
out today.
Wendell Willkie found oi
why Hopkins was so cloi
to Roosevelt
Farley felt that Hopkins’
utterances embarrassed
Roosevelt politically
—-i. . ~. .
Stalin gave Hopkins hi*
opinion of Roosevelt’s in
fluence in world affairs
Churchill promised Hop
kins a noble title, “Lord
Root of the Matter”
'if.
Foremost in Hopkins’
mind was the early defeat
of Adolf Hitler
General Eisenhower be
came a key figure in the
Roosevelt-Hopkin* plan
•
Genera) Marshall helped
to teach Hopkins the mill*
tary facts of life