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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BERLIN (Friday)-German surface raiders, staging "the biggest attack of its kind in naval history," have sunk 13 vessels totalling nearly 100,000 tons and loaded with war materials for Britain which may have been en route from America, official Nazi quarters claimed last night...
...week before. Defenders of the bill-Dorothy Thompson. William Bullitt, Major Gen eral John F. O'Ryan-came in with more arguments, all familiar. Ex-Ambassador Bullitt pointed to one difficulty: "The state of mind here today is about what it was in France a year before they en gaged in war with Germany...
...spent or obligated before Jan. 1, 1941; 2) "slow assets," not quickly convertible, had a nominal value of ?3,868,000,000, could not be liquidated in time to obviate the need for U. S. aid; 3) the British hold practically no gold (only $205,000,000 in or en route to the U. S., and $33,000,000 in the more distant dominions); 4) cost of war to Britain: $50,000,000 a day-40% paid by taxation, the rest borrowed; 5) British dollar requirements for 1941 will be $3,019,000,000; dollar exchange assets available...
...Bemelmans' artist eye, Quito appeared from above "as if made of marzipan crawling with numberless black flies." The Quito train was small, baroque and red with "banisters . . . that belong to an old brownstone house." Restaurant signs en route read: Hays Krim (Ice Cream), Airistiu (Irish Stew) and Wide Navel Wiski (White Label Whisky). In a hotel, whose walls were papered with copies of the Schweizer Hausfrau, he could read useful pointers on the cure of hemorrhoids and on what to do if encumbered with a hat, an umbrella and a lighted cigar when approaching a lady...
...bombing German? Germany recently warned the U. S. against declaring Irish ports in the neutrality zone, using them for unloading war materials en route to Britain. Possibly Germany bombed Ireland by way of discouraging the acceptance of any such proposal...