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...seven marriageable princesses Bertie quickly picked Alexandra of Denmark. The choice was biologically a good one, but it headed Bertie and Britain, through Europe's interlocking dynastic feuds and Bismarck's intricate Machtpolitik, straight for World Wars...
...navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug many times heavier. Neither so fast nor so heavily protected as such new-day beauties as the 15-in.-gunned German Tirpitz and the unhappy Bismarck, she carries a more powerful wallop* than any foreign ship afloat...
Secretary Knox in a recent Collier's article perhaps enjoyed telling the "secret" (kept till then by newsmen) that a U.S. airman was aboard the plane which spotted the Bismarck'and called the British fleet in for the kill. Again, although Winston Churchill was all for letting the public know about his meeting with the President as soon as it took place, Franklin Roosevelt, gleeful over his private secret, interposed every obstacle then and later to letting out even the most innocuous information...
More & more accounts agreed that one city at least has been really pulverized: Hamburg. Attacks on that vital city in May gutted the huge shipyards of Blohm & Voss, which in peacetime built the Europa, Majestic, Leviathan, Kungsholm, many other giants, and against war built the Bismarck and many destroyers.* In town the Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Bank, the Industriepalast, the Defaka Department Store, the Carl Schultze Theater were among buildings completely burned or knocked down. One of the principal business streets, Möckebergstrasse, was once closed to traffic for three days. Civilian casualties have been high: in some cases...
...Bismarck was the world's most powerful battleship...