Word: athenia
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...closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week the Senate got ready to shift its burden...
...This week Tass, official Russian news agency, reported that a German cruiser had seized the U. S. Maritime Commission's 4,963-ton vessel City of Flint (which rescued survivors of the Athenia), bound from Manhattan to Manchester with a contraband cargo of foods, cotton, sewing machines, plows, tractors, coffee, hair and feathers. The report said that 18 Germans had boarded the City of Flint and sailed her up around Scandinavia to Kola Bay, where Murmansk lies. The German Admiralty denied all knowledge of the incident...
...affidavit filed last week with the U. S. State Department by a U. S. survivor of the Athenia, momentarily revived World War II's first major incident as a sulfurous fount of propaganda. Encouraged by three U. S. Representatives-South Dakota's Case, Louisiana's Brooks, Oregon's Pierce-one Gustav A. Anderson, travel bureau operator of Evanston, Ill., came forward to swear that Chief Officer Copeland of the Athenia told him that the ship carried "plenty" of guns for Canada's coast defenses and for fitting herself out as a raider on her return...
...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...
...heart of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Adolf Hitler. Hitherto personally muted since war began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That was how you planned it, wasn't it, Mr. Churchill? That...