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...cooing but the youngsters on the screen and a similar period of oohing and ahing by slobberly sentimental housewives in the seats behind you. Walter Pidgeon--hereafter to be known as the dead pigeon--does as much as can be done with a role as lifeless as King Tut. Greer Garson, with her red hair in a big knot, looks like seven pounds of potatoes in a five pound bag--and I do mean bag. The picture as a whole--well, we won't be unkind--we'll just say it stinks...
...defiance, the rattlesnake struck. To Washington came the news that the 6,850-ton Pink Star, owned by the U.S. Government, flying the flag of Panama, had been sunk off Iceland in the same waters where a Nazi submarine had tried to torpedo the destroyer Greer and a raider had sent the merchantman Sessa to the bottom...
Damaged at a pier in Suez lay the Arkansan (Sept. 11). Unscathed, somewhere in the Atlantic, was the U.S. destroyer Greer, which a Nazi submarine had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to torpedo...
...began by clearly, carefully outlining the Greer incident: the Greer was unmistakably a U.S. ship, was attacked by the Nazi submarine in waters declared by the U.S. to be "waters of self-defense." The at tack, he said, was either a deliberate Nazi attempt to sink a U.S. warship, or "even more outrageous," an attack from undersea on an unidentified surface boat, indicating a policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas...
...things were certain: 1) Although the Nazis insisted that the Greer had been the aggressor, they did not mind having it known that a U-boat had tangled with the U. S. Navy- perhaps they thought the news would give the U.S. pause. 2) The U.S. Navy, which has long had warheads on its torpedoes, will not, next time if it can help it, wait to be attacked before attacking...