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...Else But? The Chinese-some of whom have not the foggiest notion what a press conference is-kept asking in different ways: When were the Americans leaving? Did the General know of the bad behavior of his troops in Shanghai...
...ship, radar is insurance against collision with icebergs, rocks or other ships; it can take a vessel at full speed through a crowded harbor and dock it in the foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...
...thing about it all is that the average man, making up his income tax or with some other worry, hasn't the foggiest notion of what Lord Halifax did say and, what is more, doesn't care . . . which is the way, we fear, with a lot of those hectic controversies which politicians, publicists and pundits imagine to be historymaking, but which in the end don't matter at all. The publicists, pundits and politicians get themselves all worked up and imagine that all the rest of us are worked up too, when the truth is that...
Nothing new in classic blockade-running has been developed. The three ships sunk by U.S. craft were typical runners. Medium-sized freighters (about 7,000 tons) with better-than-average speed (15 knots up) work out best. They rely on luck and bad weather, pick the foggiest of nights to leave Europe...
...Dangers. Franklin Roosevelt had ignored his own warning by calling the food conference at such short notice. No nation will have time to prepare adequately. The agenda was couched in the foggiest of diplomatic language. And since only experts will be present, no binding agreements can be reached. (A White House plan to make it a hush-hush affair by barring the press was reluctantly withdrawn...