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...Atlantic were 22 luxury-liners jampacked with homing American tourists (see p. 40); in Europe every American consulate, ministry, embassy swarmed with visa-waving U. S. citizens keen for a sight of Staten Island; at Villefranche, France, floated the U. S. Navy's Squadron 40-T, (the light cruiser Trenton, old destroyers Badger and Paul Jones) their steam up to haul U. S. nationals to embarkation points...
...Putting the world on notice that, if war should break while he was gone, he would instantly summon Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled...
Remember the Warwick? On St. George's Eve, 1918, she put out to sea for Zeebrugge, leading 74 scarecrow vessels- a nearly obsolete cruiser, some ferryboats, three old light cruisers loaded with concrete, two ancient submarines packed with explosives, and a swarm of tiny motor launches and smoke-boats. Their job was to block the Bruges Canal, from which U-boats had been darting on their deadly errands. As they set out, Vice Admiral Roger Keyes signaled the others: "St. George for England," and one answered: "May we give the dragon's tail a damned good twist...
...have been led to believe that the U. S. was, by & large, sympathetic to their aims. The failure of the U. S. to take action after the sinking of the Panay convinced them there was no danger of intervention; the dispatch to Japan this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that...
...control it, on the broader international scene the issue was essentially one between the Rome-Berlin Axis and the British-French Peace Front. The Monarchists have always been pro-English; the Falangists are ready to sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Passing British-owned Gibraltar on an Italian cruiser recently, Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer was heard to mutter that the Rock's days of "disgrace" were numbered, i. e., that it would soon again be Spanish. The smart money is on him to win the current showdown...