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...Ministry of Shipping, to succeed Sir John Gilmour, who died last fortnight, went strapping, ambitious Robert Spear Hudson, a blunt ex-diplomat who as Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade was one of the junior ministers who revolted against Neville Chamberlain after Munich. After Chamberlain warned the rebels to play ball, Hudson played ball. Last summer he took credit for Behind-the-Scenes-Man Sir Horace Wilson's abortive plan to offer Germany credits and access to world markets in exchange for peace. Said the Spectator last week: "His appointment . . . over the head of Sir Arthur Salter, whose...
...Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost earless, capped by a queer headpiece, it looks something like a subthyroid football player...
...Umbrella ribs provided with blunt tips, to protect eyes...
...Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent weapon, but again must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and at home that would like to blunt it. Britain especially, who needs capital to carry on her enormously expensive blockade, may well be appalled at the sight of a creditor nation like the U.S. accumulating more credit all the time, and putting it out of her reach by the Johnson Act. Just how these possible threats...
...Blunt object of Germany's indiscriminate war on neutral shipping is to discourage neutrals from trading with Great Britain. Great Britain's reply is her convoy system, of which she invites neutrals to take advantage, setting at one in 450 the chances of a convoyed ship's being lost. This week the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden were to meet in Copenhagen to consider forming convoys armed by themselves. From Sept. 3 to Feb. 15, Norway alone lost 47 vessels totaling 103,121 tons, nine of them in the last month. Last week she demanded...