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...plant of McKinnon Industries, Ltd. in St. Catharines, Ont., crippling Canada's automotive production. Some 700 were coal miners in Nova Scotia, who since April have been on a slowdown strike, cutting their production in half, causing a shortage of coal for the railways carrying war goods to Halifax and difficulty in bunkering ships for England...
Members of the hospital have already had active experience in combating epidemics in the United States and have also assisted in crushing outbreaks of scarlet fever, diptheria and meningitis, which arose last winter at Halifax, Nova Scotia...
...public was calm, but not the President. For at least a fortnight he had been pondering (TIME, Sept. 1) an order to fire on Nazi submarines or bombers in the area between Halifax and Iceland. Now the Germans had fired first, before his warning. The Germans seemed clearly in the wrong. When reporters filed in for press conference next day he did not even wait for questions...
...another thing beside radio speeches was cooking in the White House. The President planned direct and drastic action to win the Battle of the Atlantic. He pondered issuing a proclamation, in the form of an executive announcement, that if the Germans send submarines or bombers into the area between Halifax and Iceland the U.S. will fire on them. He was prepared at last to order U.S. warships to convoy from the U.S. to Iceland. British warships might cooperate in the convoys, but a U.S. flagship would accompany each group...
They are: 1) Conservative Lord Halifax; 2) Conservative Anthony Eden; 3) Liberal Sir Archibald Sinclair; 4) Conservative Sir Kingsley Wood; 5) Laborite Ernest Bevin; 6) Laborite Herbert Morrison; 7) Laborite Clement Attlee; 8) Laborite Albert Victor Alexander; 9) Conservative Lord Beaverbrook; 10) Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps; 11) Laborite Arthur Greenwood; 12) General Sir John Dill; 13) General Archibald Wavell; 14) King George...