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Harry Truman sat on the weather deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg and bared his white chest to the sun. It was his first trip away from Washington since last March, but it was not complete escape. Each morning, courier seaplanes skimmed into the water alongside the presidential, yacht in Chesapeake Bay and delivered locked leather pouches from the White House...
Lapping Problems. The problems of office sometimes lapped on to the deck. The President signed a $6.4 billion supplemental military appropriations bill, which brought the arms spending for the fiscal year to more than $48 billion, about three times as much as he was asking before Korea. The President also signed an urgently needed $365 million deficiency appropriations bill, but complained about a rider which forbids aid to any nation shipping strategic materials to Communist countries. Much had been done to stop such trade, he said, and more could be done through diplomatic "cooperation" than through "coercion." He asked Congress...
...They're Not Fooling Anyone." The big Privateer buzzed the lumbering freighter almost at the mouth of a major Siberian harbor. Some crewmen caught on deck waved, probably in embarrassment. Or maybe you only imagined that, because you'd be embarrassed. Others scurried for hatches and doorways...
...They're not fooling anyone," said Lieut. McCord. "They're American owned, American manned, and carrying American freight. On some, even the decks are loaded. On others, we can see American crews on deck-at least, they look like Americans, from masthead height. Sure as hell, they're not Panamanians...
...heading for Siberian or Chinese ports. Many-perhaps the majority-flew the Panama flag. But there were also pictures of British-one incongruously named City of Chicago-Greek, Russian, French and Japanese ships in the telltale files. All had been snapped since the first of the year. Some had deck cargoes-lumber, steel. Others were laden with oil for the tanks of Red China. Some were shown coming back empty...