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...note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon Representative Charles Albert Plumley of Vermont told the House of Representatives that he was "astounded" when he saw a picture...
...London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...
Northern Blockade. Basic point made by the Allies in last fortnight's Altmark affair, when the British destroyer Cossack raided a fjord of neutral Norway to liberate 299 British seamen taken from the late raider Admiral Graf Spec's, victims, was that German use and abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland...
...honorable in British naval annals is the name Ajax* and how far back into history march those annals, was called to mind last week when sailors of the present light cruiser Ajax, co-heroine of the Graf Spec fight, hung a new name under their ship's battle-honor plaque-THE PLATE. Above this sign, which refers to the River Plate (La Plata) between Uruguay and Argentina, appear legends signalizing exploits of five of the eight Ajax ships that have served Great Britain down the history of her long maritime mastery...
...German vessel of some 12,000 tons. She looked like a merchantman: some said she flew the Nazi naval flag; at any rate from her name, Altmark, anyone at all conversant with World War II must have known that she was the armed tender for the late raider Admiral Graf Spee, a ship sought .furiously by the British Navy because she was reported to ' carry, in verminous prison quarters below decks, between 300 and 400 British seamen taken from the Spee'?, seven sunken victims (TIME...