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...millions, were unlike the trip of Wendell Willkie, private citizen traveling at his own expense, into besieged Britain and out again. When he left, 18 days before, the headlines were announcing the fall of Tobruch and the riots in Rumania. When he got back, the British Navy was pounding Genoa (see p. 30), British troops had taken Bengasi, were a third of the way to Tripoli (see p. 36). When he left, debate on the Lend-Lease Bill was growing strident, and there were rumors that he would be ostracized by the Republican Party because he supported the bill (with...
...dawn one day, the Western Fleet swept unhesitatingly right to Genoa, in waters which ought to be Italian if any are. Without regard for enemy mines, submarines, airplanes or shore batteries, the ships lay there and pumped broadside after broadside into Italy's fourth city, her chief merchant port. Over 300 tons of shells flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown...
...insufferable taunt at the Italians. It drew not a single ship from Italy's main naval base at La Spezia, not 60 miles away. It was an unequivocal warning to the Germans not to try to launch a seaborne expedition to North Africa either from Genoa or from French ports...
...right that the Italian people should be made to feel the sorry plight into which they have been dragged by Dictator Mussolini, and if the cannonade of Genoa, rolling along the coast, reverberating in the mountains, has reached the ears of our French comrades in their grief and misery, it may cheer them with the feeling that friends, active friends, are near and that Britannia rules the waves...
...spoor led the investigators across the Atlantic, where, they said, more agents had received over 1,000 blank immigration permits for distribution in Warsaw, Hamburg, Genoa and Paris. These sold from $145 to $2,000. All told, one Deputy charged, the ring's total receipts had reached $50,000,000 for 15,000 Jews admitted to Bolivia...