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...intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed to their telephones to get in touch with their home capitals...
...right ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling the people around me to shut their damned mouths. . . . Everything is lit up. The U. S. battleship New York provides a particularly brilliant spectacle. ... In a minute they are going to fire some rockets...
...Spain, which had reserved an anchorage for the little destroyer Ciscar, was unable to send it because of pressing engagements with Generalissimo Franco, but 17 other foreign ships were present, starting with the little Estonian submarine Kalev and ending with the head of the line, the modernized U. S. battleship New York, flagship of the U. S. fleet during the World War. For a day retired Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval delegate to the Coronation, was back on her quarterdeck, flying his four-starred flag at her masthead...
Greatest hush-hush ship in line was not the Soviet battleship Marat whose comrade sailors spent most of their time exercising on parallel bars on deck, nor the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec which served beer to visitors, but the pride of the French navy, the Dunkerquc. Only official visitors were allowed on board, and even they were rushed below decks as quickly as possible. Though only half the size of Britain's ponderous Hood, the newly completed Dunkerque, spies insist, is the fastest and most heavily armored battleship afloat...
...that time the worst and most completely witnessed disaster in the history of commercial aviation was over, the 803-ft. Hindenburg was gone, destroyed in precisely 32 sec. before 1,000 appalled spectators. It was almost as if it had been done as a laboratory experiment, like a discarded battleship blown up for target practice before experts. If such an experiment had been planned, it would have been hard to gather a more competent battalion of onlookers—Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl, No. 1 U. S. airship man; representatives of Deutsche Zeppelin Reederai; aviation editors and reporters from all important newspapers...