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...British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic...
Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet to the kill...
Today, as Rube Fleet works his 15-to-18-hour day, driving, berating, wheedling for speed, more speed, the saga of Consolidated craft grows & grows. It was a PBY that found the Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more...
...History Department deal directly with England. Of the teachers of these courses one, Professor Merriman, has written a widely known historical work, but it is on Spain, not England. The most distinguished books by Harvard historians of the last decade have been on such subjects as Greece, Bismarck, World War causes, imperialism, revolutions, maritime history of New England, and the Reconstruction in the South. These books have about as much anglophile tinge as Senator Wheeler...
...Angel so ardently wished, and I doubt not he sees and knows this, and that it is one of his rewards." But "like a mayfly the Prince of Wales danced idly in the sun." He also danced under the gas lights of questionable houses in Second Empire Paris, until Bismarck, having discovered the riddle of Napoleon III (he was "the sphinx without a secret"), destroyed France at Sedan and created the Second Reich at Versailles. Then "from these flames there stepped a slightly discredited phoenix, the portentous phenomenon of modern Europe...