Description
The signed limited edition of Peace through Strength by Morris V. Rosenbloom, inscribed to Assistant Secretary of Defense, H. Struve Hensel.
Octavo, 325pp, [5]. Red cloth, title stamped in white over a blue printed label on the spine. Stated “First Trade Edition Published January 1953” on the copyright page. Both hinges showing wear, but solid text block. Internally clean. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $3.95 retail price on the front flap, sunning and soiling to the spine, chipping along top edge, solid hinges. Recipient’s name, H. Struve Hensel, stamped in gilt on the front cover.
Signed on the limitation page by the author. Additional inscription on the front free endpaper: “To H. Struve Hensel – With warm regards and esteem to a man who has contributed far more than his share to keeping this country strong and free – Sincerely, Morry Rosenbloom / June 4, 1954.”
H. Struve Hensel (1901-1991) served as the first General Counsel of the Navy from 1941 to 1945, then as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1945-46, and later as the first General Counsel of the Department of Defense and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Eisenhower administration. In 1954, he was drawn into the Army-McCarthy hearings, accused of misconduct while in charge of Naval contracts during World War II. Hensel called the charges “barefaced lies,” and the charges were later dismissed.
