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...Royal Navy submarines sank five cargo ships that were trying to run the gantlet from Sicily. The submarines surfaced along the Italian coast and shelled trains and factories. Bad news for Italians was the report that Senegalese soldiers of the French colonial armies were joining Eisenhower's command. In French West Africa were more than 50,000 of the ferocious, black warriors, whom the Italians dread...
...battle of supply rose in intensity (see p. 34), the British avenged their losses. By week's end Royal Navy cruisers, destroyers, submarines and Allied planes had accounted for 20 Axis merchantmen and three escorting destroyers, all trying to run the gantlet from Italian bases to North Africa...
...Francisco, in running the gantlet, had crippled the Jap battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command...
Although the Brown bill has considerable sentiment behind it, it has to run a gantlet of committees and perhaps face Administration opposition. Secretary Morgenthau has said he does not want to resort to compulsory savings until he has had time to see whether non-compulsory (sale of defense bonds) will supply the Government's needs. But he may come around. Defense-bond sales were $1,075,000,000 in January, $711,000,000 in February, dropped to a monthly rate of $580,000,000 in the first 23 days of March...
...This gantlet-run through the wilderness is the thread on which the picture's propa ganda pearls are strung. Best of them is a notable performance by Anton Walbrook as head of a Hutterite sect, of Germanic origin, who practice a kind of Christian communism in Canada's vast wheatlands. To Lieut. Portman's guttural plea that the Hutterites join their Nazi brothers in the war for Nordic supremacy, the leader replies: "Most of us are Germans, but we are not your brothers...