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...hundred yards from President Roosevelt the swastika flew boldly under a fresh southeasterly wind. It flew from the stern of the German freighter Arauca, chased into Port Everglades, Fla. by a British cruiser soon after the outbreak of the war. For 15 months the Arauca had sported a swastika, but a small one. One day last week, when President Roosevelt's special train had pulled into the siding at the Port Everglades dock, the little swastika was replaced by a huge...
...Gazeeki's "The Secret Weapon" is a quite intriguing historical vignette concerning Uncle Sam's Spanish War cruiser which fired sky torpedoes by compressed air and had greater speed in reverse than ahead. R. H. Mansfield surveys "What's Going On" along Harvard's waterfront and reports that only five men out of the-thirty-seven Seniors in the N.R.O.T.C. are contemplating a civilian postgraduate career. Most interesting to landlubbers, though, is the Gallup poll which E. W. Garrison has made of the Harvard sailors. The local gobs prefer destroyers to battleships, ships to planes, and blondes or brunettes...
BERLIN--Luftwaffe bombings of British shipping from the Eastern Mediterranean to the North Atlantic during the past 24 hours added seven ships--one of them a cruiser--to the mounting toll of British maritime casualties, German sources said today...
...ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker makes clear in his sections on Nazi activities in South America, especially the Uruguay incident which compelled the U. S. to send a cruiser to Montevideo for fear of a Nazi uprising
...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...