Word: convoying
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Sirs: Although I should like to congratulate you on reaching a new low in prejudiced reporting in your anti-Tobey article [New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey is hotly anti-convoy -TIME, April 28], I am effectively restrained by the unhappy memory of a succession of your articles, each of which reached at a particular time...
...just my mood this week, but it seems to me that TIME, April 28, is, in its National Affairs section at least, indicative of a definite editorial policy leaning toward the anti-convoy idea...
...ecstatic accounts of the engagement. Lavoro Fascista called it "A Black Day for the British Navy." The High Command claimed hits on two battleships, an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a destroyer and three merchantmen. Next day German bombers attacked again south of Malta and claimed hits. When the convoy had had time to get out of danger, the British denied that a single vessel had been hit. Rome admitted that British warships (possibly going out from Alexandria to meet the convoy) had treated the Axis Libyan supply port at Bengasi to a thorough shelling...
...Topeka Capital: "Public apathy toward the convoy business is readily understandable...
Before the Argentine Foreign Office made any reply, La Prensa, great Argentine daily, declared: "If the Argentine Government heeds this German protest, we'd be accountable for printing such news as Secretary of War Stimson's [Navy convoy] speech...