tnote 6-37: Ltr, CINCPAC&POA to SecNav via Ch,
NavPers, 30 Oct 45, sub: Negro Naval
Personnel--Pacific Ocean Areas, and 2d Ind, CNO, 7
Dec 45, same sub, both in P16-3/MM, OpNavArchives.]

[Footnote 6-38: Memo, J. F. for Adm Jacobs, 23 Aug
45, 54-1-13, Forrestal file, GenRecsNav.]

[Illustration: ADMIRAL DENFELD.]

In response the Bureau of Naval Personnel circulated the Granger
reports throughout the Navy and ordered steps to correct practices
identified by Granger as "not in accordance with Navy standards."[6-39]
But it was soon apparent that the bureau would be selective in
adopting Granger's suggestions. In November, for example, the Chief of
Naval Personnel, Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, arguing that officers
"could handle black personnel without any special indoctrination,"
urged the secretary to reject Granger's recommendation that an office
be established in headquarters to deal exclusively with racial
problems. At the same time some of the bureau's recruiting officials
were informing Negroes that their reenlistment in the Regular Navy was
to be limited to the Steward's Branch.[6-40] With the help of Admiral
Nimitz, Chief of Naval Operations, Forrestal quickly put an end to
this recruiting practice, but he paid no further attention to racial
matters except to demand in mid-December a progress report on racial
reforms in the Pacific area.[6-41] Nor did he seem disturbed when the
Pacific commander reported a large number of all-black units, some
with segregated recreational facilities, operating in the Pacific area
as part of the permanent postwar naval organization.[6-42]

[Footnote 6-39: Memo, Asst Ch, NavPers, for SecNav,
10 Sep 45, sub: Ur Memo of August 23, 1945,
Relative to Lester B. Granger ... 54-1-13,
Forrestal file, GenRecsNav.]

[Footnote 6-40: 1st Ind, Chief, NavPers, to Ltr,
CINCPAC&POA to SecNav, 30 Oct 45, sub: Negro
Personnel--Pacific Ocean Areas (ca. 15 Nov 45),
P16-3MM, OpNavArchives; Memo, M. F. Correa (Admin
Asst to SecNav) for Capt Robert N. McFarlane, 30
Nov 45, 54-1-13, Forrestal file, GenRecsNav.]

[Footnote 6-41: Forrestal's request for a progress
report was circulated in