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>Got ready to receive a first-hand report on the battle of the Southwest Pacific, brought to Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney (see p. 28).
>Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight—four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin.
>Saw Lend-Lease celebrate its second anniversary by a Congressional extension until June 30, 1944. The vote: Senate, 82-to-0; House, 407-to-6. (The vote nine months before Pearl Harbor: in the Senate, 60-to-31; in the House, 260-to-165.)
>Wined & dined Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at the White House.