The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
Over any such tangled wave of problems the S-1 secret would be dominant and yet we will not know until after that time probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto. Henry L. Stimson Read Quote
