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the Hotel Washington, and you have him for dinner here. How can you keep that
boy under what amounts to arrest?"
"Putzi is an ex-Nazi," the President said coldly.
"And you know, Bill, how valuable he's been to us."
"Ernst "Putzi" von Hanfstaengel, a classmate and close friend of Roosevelt at
Harvard, was one of the early aristocratic supporters of Hider and the Nazi
party Later, his disillusionment with Nazism became known to Heinrich Himmler,
who ordered von Hanfstaengel murdered. He learned of the plot and managed to
escape 'with his family through Spain. Roosevelt established him in an
apartment in the Hotel Washington, where von Hanfstaengel spent the war
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offering his knowledge of the Nazi inner circle to Roosevelt and the several
intelligence services.
Though he let his displeasure show, Donovan didn't back down. "I would say
that Jim Whittaker has done his fair share of being valuable to us," Donovan
said.
"At the very least, if he has to be-what shall I say?-restrained, then we can
do that as well at Summer Place as Fort Knox."
"You may have a point," the President said. "There's one more thing," Donovan
said.
"Jim Whittaker's name has come up in connection with the North African
invasion, in connection with a man named Eric Fulmar. "Who's he?"
"Another valuable-to-our-cause German, Franklin," Donovan said. When Roosevelt
glared at him, Donovan went on: "We used him to help us get the mining
engineer out of Morocco. He's close to the pasha of Ksar es Souk, who, Holds
worth Martin suggests, might just be able to arrange for a rebellion when we
invade."
"What's his connection with Jimmy?
"He, Jimmy, and Canidy were in boarding school together. St. Mark's," Donovan
said.
"We used Canidy to get to him in the Grunier operation, but that burned Canidy
out for Fulmar after we decided to leave Fulmar in Morocco although we'd
promised to take him out. If we go ahead with the idea of stirring up the
Berbers, we'll need another contact. Among the names that the researchers came
up with, absolutely independently, was James M. B. Whittaker." Roosevelt
didn't reply for a moment. Finally he asked, "Again, Bill, exactly what is it
you want me to do? " "Turn Jimmy over to me," Donovan said.
"I'll guarantee his silence. "I'll discuss it with George," Roosevelt said.
"We both know what he'll say," Donovan protested. "As I've told you, George
doesn't always get what George wants," the President said.
"But under the circumstances, I think I should ask him what he thinks."
Donovan just looked at him.
"And under the circumstances, I think you should relay my gratitude to Barbara
for her hospitality to the admiral. You may tell her that I said I have every
hope that she will soon be able to see Jimmy."
I V [ ONE I San Francisco, California June 15, 1942
Lieutenant Commander Edwin H. Bitter returned to the United States aboard the
Swedish passenger liner Kungsholm. The Kungsholm was then engaged in returning
diplomatic and civilian personnel of the various belligerent powers to their
homelands. Its last voyage in this capacity had been to Japan, carrying among
others a hundred Japanese of American citizenship who preferred Japan to
detention in the camps established for them in Arizona and elsewhere.
The Swedish ambassador to the Empire of Japan then received Japanese
permission to charter the vessel to the United States for service as a
hospital ship. On instructions from Berlin, the German ambassador supported
the Swedish request. The German Foreign Ministry believed that Germany might
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require similar services at some time in the future.
The German request overcame reluctance from some quarters in the Japanese
Foreign Ministry.
The Kungsholm-floodlights illuminating the huge red crosses painted on its
white hull-steamed under the Golden Gate Bridge and docked at the Treasure
Island Naval Base in San Francisco Bay. Most of the Navy and Marine Corps
personnel aboard were transferred immediately to a hospital train for
transportation to the Navy hospital in San Diego.
But since Lieutenant Commander Bitter was ambulatory he required a cane-he was
driven to the Alameda Naval Air Station in a Navy station wagon. After a
complete physical examination he was given an interim classification of
"convalescent" and a partial pay, then ordered to report to the Great Lakes
Naval Station. He was told he would be given a fourteen-day convalescent leave
to his home of record, and that a reservation priority had been authorized for
a roomette aboard a train to Chicago the next day. Bitter arrived in the
United States wearing Army-issue khakis with an Army major's golden oak leaf
on each collar point. There had been no Navy-size (smaller) rank insignia
available in Calcutta. As soon as he could, he went to the officers' sales
store and outfitted himself with uniforms off the rack. These would do for the
time being.
When he left for the Orient a year before, he had sent most of his Navy
uniforms from Pensacola Naval Air Station, where he had been stationed with
Dick Canidy, to his parents' home in Chicago. He bought two sets of khaki
tunics, trousers, and shirts; two sets of khaki shoulder boards (two white,
two blue); and the appropriate metal insignia of rank. He purchased golden
Naval Aviator's wings to replace the set he had taken to China. They had been
either misplaced or stolen. The clerk had never heard of the Order of the
Cloud Banner, so he could not buy a ribbon to represent that. And he was
further disappointed when he realized that since he'd gotten his wound while
he was in Chinese service, it did not qualify him for the Purple Heart medal.
The clerk told him, however, that anybody with ninety days' service in the
Pacific was entitled to a Pacific Theater ribbon, but Bitter decided he wasn't
entitled to that either, since he did not have ninety days' U.S. Navy service
in the Far East. He also did not choose to wear the single ribbon everyone in
the service was entitled to, the American Defense Service Medal. Finally, he
pinned his American Volunteer Group wings above the right breast pocket and
his Navy wings above the left, where regulations prescribed they should be
worn. When he examined himself in the mirror, he was pleased with what he saw.
It was good to be back in a Navy uniform, and he thought that the AVG wings
would more than make up to anyone who knew what they were-and he didn't really
care about anyone who didn't-for the lack of campaign ribbons on his left
breast.
In the men's room of the officers' club that night, he ran into a non flying
rear admiral who did not know what the AVG wings were and was drunk enough to
inquire. "Commander," the admiral asked, "what the hell is that pinned to your
jacket?"
"They're AVG wings, Sir," Ed replied, properly modest. "What say?"
"AVG wings, Sir," Ed repeated, and when there was no glint of understanding in
the admiral's eyes, he explained: "The American Volunteer Group, Sir. In
China."
"Chinaman's wings?"
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