Crossword-Solution: SECY 4 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Exhibitors at our meetings and at the state fair are all well acquainted with this valuable member of our organization.--Secy.

For more on the Freeman Field incident, see Chapter 5, below.] [Footnote 2-80: Memo, Secy, Advisory Cmte, for Advisory Cmte on Special Troop Policies, 13 Jun 45, sub: Minutes of Meeting, ASW 291.2 NT.] [Footnote 2-81: Ltr, Actg SW to Gov.

Bolte, Chmn, Amer Vets Cmte, to SW, 8 Mar 46; see also Ltr, Ralph DeNat, Corr Secy, Amer Vets Cmte, to SW, 28 May 46, both in SW 291.2 (Cmte) (9 Aug 46).] Clearly, opposition to segregation was not going to be overcome with palliatives and promises, yet Petersen could only affirm that the Gillem Board Report would mean significant change.

Steward McClendon, Secy, Minneapolis Chapter, Am Vets Cmte, to SecDef [_sic_] Royall, 28 May 48, CSUSA 291.2 Negroes (28 May 48).] Royall's ruling, while perhaps a short-term gain for traditionalists, was significant because it established a precedent that would be used by integrationists in later years.

Kenworthy, Exec Secy, Presidential Committee, to Lee Nichols, 28 Jul 53; both in CMH files.] Royall formally proposed a defense-wide experiment in integration to Forrestal on 2 December.