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That age-old gratuitous insult to our Holy Father is not unknown among bitter anti-Catholics like the Orangemen of Belfast or renegade Catholics of whom Hitler and Goebbels are two up-to-the-minute specimens...
...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 trip. He described an air of tension aboard after the ship cleared Belfast and Liverpool on Sept. 2: repeated, ominous lifeboat drills and inspections before & after war was declared by Britain on Sept. 3. He remarked the fact that the Athenia was still floating some 14 hours after being damaged, said he had heard British destroyers finally sank her as a dangerous derelict...
Kennedy had worked fast. Hanging to the telephone, he had ordered consulates in Belfast, Dublin and Liverpool-where most Americans embarked-to get the names of passengers. When he arrived that morning at the seven-story red-brick former apartment house that is now the U. S. Embassy, No. 1 Grosvenor Square, he was able to cable the State Department an almost complete list of Americans aboard. Two days later, in tension and in shirt sleeves, Joe Kennedy spent his 51st birthday working at his desk...
...kind to the tycoon as it was cruel to 1,450 Canadian and U. S. travelers who sought last week to get home from thunderous Europe. In the 13,581-ton S. S. Athenia of the Donaldson Atlantic Line (affiliate of Cunard-White Star) they embarked at Glasgow, Belfast and Liverpool for Montreal. At 8:59 p. m. Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach...
Formidable was to be the name of a 23,000-ton aircraft carrier standing ready for launching on the ways of a Belfast shipyard last week. Formidable, indeed, was the launching. As if sensing the pressure under which the had been built, anxious to get into the water as soon as possible, H. M. S. Formidable waited only for a crowd to gather, a band to tune its instruments and Lady Wood, wife of Britain's Secretary of State for Air, who was to christen the ship, to clear her throat, before slipping its poppet, breaking a cradle, careening...