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More than a fortnight ago a British battleship cleared from an undisclosed British port, carrying a tall, grave Englishman on a weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as any in British history. Lord Halifax's problem was not, like his predecessor the late Lord Lothian's, to state Britain's case to a skeptical, suspicious U. S. The stubborn, gallant, outnumbered resistance of Britain had transformed U. S. opinion, not only about the war. but about the character of the people Lord Halifax was to represent...
...unless the public is informed the services cannot rely on public support which they need for a hundred important matters, from conscription to battleship building. Hence, except in actual wartime, compulsory press censorship is out of the question. Few weeks ago the Navy got an idea. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox put it down on paper and mailed signed copies to some 5,000 newspapers, magazines, picture agencies, radio stations, etc. He marked it "confidential." Last week Frank Knox's cat was let out of the bag, not by any recipient of his unusual letter...
...fired by Nazi bombs that the British were finally forced to sink her. Said Military Expert Hanson Baldwin: "The Southampton's sinking marks a red-letter day in the history of warfare. Some day, when sufficient forces have been concentrated against it and sufficient hits are made, a battleship, too, will be sunk from...
Axis stories grew and fattened. Berlin reported the 31,000-ton British battleship Malaya towed into Gibraltar, after having been put out of action in the Sicilian battle. Italy's spokesman Virginio Gayda raised Italy's score to ten British warships, then added another cruiser and the aircraft carrier Eagle, both torpedoed...
...terror alone could not make Convoy a great war picture. What makes it great is the picture's climax. The seamen stand grimly watching Captain Armitage pace the deck, trying to decide whether to take on the pocket battleship Deutschland with his outclassed cruiser. Battle means almost certain destruction. Suddenly the Captain says he has decided to fight. The men stop gnawing their lips, break into grins...