Forrestal, James (1892-1949)
- Quotation from James Forrestal “The method ... to bring coercion and duress on other nations in the General Assembly bordered closely on scandal” — Feb. 3 1948
U.S. Secretary of Defense (1947-1949), who committed suicide or was defenestrated on May 22, 1949, exposing to Roosevelt the means used to obtain the partition vote for Palestine on November 29, 1947.