America without Henry L. Stimson

WI Henry L. Stimson stayed a Stock broker instead of going into the Government? Would something similar to the Stimson Doctrine be around? Would the US have mobilized its industry and military so effectivly? More importantly would the Manhattan Projec have been handled as well as it did without his supervision?
 

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Unless this is a poorly worded DBWI this just goes to so how even a reasonably well informed person can have no knowledge of people of true importance to history.

Just thought I should post that.
 
Unless this is a poorly worded DBWI this just goes to so how even a reasonably well informed person can have no knowledge of people of true importance to history.

Just thought I should post that.

So the Secretary of War from 1940 to 1945 had no real impact upon the war? I'm failing to see how I am uninformed in this aspect, as Stimson had a hand in major events of the war. He encouraged the A-bomb to be used, steered FDR away from the Morgenthau Plan, and helped direct the army to a force of millions.
 
Stimson famously said that "Gentlemen dont read other people's mail", or something to that effect. Maybe U.S. intel services grow sooner without Stimson in government.
 
Stimson famously said that "Gentlemen dont read other people's mail", or something to that effect. Maybe U.S. intel services grow sooner without Stimson in government.

Perhaps, he later changed his mind but it was under FDR so that is a ten year block of time without a real foriegn intellegence service.
 
Perhaps, he later changed his mind but it was under FDR so that is a ten year block of time without a real foriegn intellegence service.

And that might have made a difference in the historical development of the country and the world.
 
And that might have made a difference in the historical development of the country and the world.

I'd like to agree, but for the most part I do not see the non-interventionist US of the 20's and 30's having any interest in intellegence outside of US interests. So maybe America knows about a war sooner, or who is a spy but I do nto see world altering events occuring.
 
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