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In North American defense terms, the most sensitive area of ocean on the globe is the stretch of the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and the Scotch coast. Over this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines...
The provocation was the interruption of five of twelve U.S.-owned transatlantic cables-four owned by Western Union, the fifth by American Telephone and Telegraph Co.-in the short period of five days. All the interruptions, or cuts, occurred in about the same spot, in the icy seas some 195...
Old Convention. Hours after the fourth cable break, Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke called in half a dozen members of his staff and laid out the story. That morning, A.T. & T. had sent a plane over the trouble spot, dropped a note on the Novorossisk's deck: YOU...
Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without...
A protest said the trawler Novorossisk was fishing on the high seas Feb. 26 when she was suspected of cutting the transatlantic cables and was boarded by a party from a U.S. destroyer.