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There was no lack of lifted voices and sounding trumpets on this heroic dispute. The gallant heir of the traditions of the Lone Star State, Senator Tom Connally, plumping for Foreign Relations, denied vehemently and at length that his choice was motivated by pride, of which nobody accused him, made it clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader...
...Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee's semi-submerged hulk still smoked in the Plata estuary and her 1,039 officers & men were interned at Buenos Aires and Montevideo, four of them under arrest in the latter capital, pending an investigation to see if the Spee's scuttling was criminal...
...personal column of the London Daily Telegraph, Lady Harwood, wife of newly promoted Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, pocketer of the Admiral Graf Spee, ". . . wishes to express her sincere sympathy with relatives of the officers and men who fell in the gallant action in La Plata...
Captain Langsdorff called up the 62 captives, and as he set them free (under parole not to give away naval secrets), said to them: "The cruisers made a gallant fight. When people fight like that, personal enmity is lost...
London's bright boys just had to see what the worst show in 20 years looked like. They screamed with laughter at its superpatriotic goings-on, involving gallant officers, dastardly villains, prostitutes, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, taints of illegitimacy, stolen papers, stolen cash, the Union Jack. They went back for more, and their friends went with them. .Soon it became quite as chic to go (preferably halfcocked) to Young England as to the opera. At first the audience merely ad-libbed, then (as they came to know the play virtually by heart) they started beating the actors to their...