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Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...
Rubber Money. Last July when from the cruiser Indianapolis President Roosevelt tossed off his amazing monetary message which disrupted the London Economic Conference, his lone companion and adviser aboard was none other than Henry Morgenthau Jr. At the time Mr. Morgenthau's presence so close to the presidential pen was minimized or ignored altogether but by last week its full significance was startlingly plain...
...Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message: 1) that the U. S. would not consent to stabilize the dollar until prices had been raised higher; 2) that he planned to establish a dollar that would have the same...
...London Daily Telegraph is a very specialized critic. He reviews no plays, no novels, no art exhibitions. Hector Bywater criticizes battleships. Last week Hector Bywater went down to sunny Devonport on special invitation from the Admiralty to take a look at H. M. S. Adventure, a 7,000-ton cruiser whose innards have been a closely guarded secret ever since her launching nine years ago. There may have been ulterior reasons for the trip. Though widely known as the last of Britain's "hush hush" ships, the Adventure, only cruiser-minelayer in the British Navy, has been in commission...
Amid pounding, wind-lashed combers two miles off the coast of Nova Scotia one day last week, the crew of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police cruiser Scatarie peered into the offing with amazement at what they saw-a big bull moose swimming out to sea. Spume drenched his antlers, waves submerged his muzzle as he swam, obviously in distress, into the wind...