Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

According to the Collective Defense Article 5 of the NATO treaty, when one signatory country comes under attack, all others ...

Since his retirement as Secretary of War in September 1945, Henry Lewis Stimson has been living quietly at his West Hills, L. I. estate, reading, writing up his diary and reflecting on his long ...

As V-E Day drew to a close, Secretary of War Henry Stimson gathered a group of top generals and officials in his office and sent for Army Chief of Staff George Marshall. "I have never seen a task ...

An alternative plan, formulated by Secretary of War Henry Stimson and attorney Lieutenant Colonel Murray Bernays, proposed that Nazi organizations be tried for criminal conspiracy, making any ...

Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of State. He was a ...

On Oct. 29, 1940, a blindfolded Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson drew the first number — 158 — from a glass bowl in ...

And supremely nonpartisan. As secretary of war under Republican President William Howard Taft, Henry Stimson oversaw the conduct of the first world war, including reorganizing the U.S. Army.