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Washington acted. At the State Department's instance, the Navy dispatched a second cruiser (the new, 10,000-ton Wichita) to Latin-American waters in the wake of the Quincy. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gravely warned a House committee that the Regular Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe...
...They blew up switches, heaped the tracks with wrecked rolling stock, made true Berlin's wry announcement that if lost, the Narvik ore port would be useless to the Allies for a long time to come. At Narvik, the British admitted losing their 4,290-ton anti-aircraft cruiser Curlew, specially armed to shoot down just what finally sank...
...cover Germany's surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
...Three light cruisers, one torpedo cruiser, eight destroyers, six torpedo boats, 23 submarines, nine minelayers. But many Dutch cows were drowned by the defense floods...
...others-Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock and U. S. Steel's Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock-can turn out anything up through a light cruiser...