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Nevertheless, said Mr. Churchill, the war at sea constitutes a "repulsive and somber panorama." Shipping losses must be reduced by the production of more escort vessels, even if production of merchantmen has to be decreased. Said the Prime Minister: "The more sinkings are reduced, the more vehement our Anglo-American war efforts can be. ... The greater the weight we can take off Russia and how quickly the war will end all depend upon the margin of new building and forging ahead over losses which are, although improving, still lamentable and . . . grievous...
...Liberty with a better reciprocating engine-which, however, cannot go into production until 1944. Possibly the present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though infinitely better) merchant marine than her present...
...April 16, 1941 Reporter O'Donnell sent his papers a dispatch which they printed next day and which said: "Charges that battlecraft of the Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro-New Deal Record printed an editorial saying: "A few hours after the [O'Donnell] story appeared, the President denounced it as 'a deliberate lie.' . . . John O'Donnell is a Naziphile. ... On numerous occasions, to all friends and barflies within hearing, he has broadcast his sympathy with most...
Whatever the task, it must be done: lurking Nazi U-Boats recently sank as much as 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping in a single month (TIME, Jan. 25), an annual rate actually in excess of the record-breaking 10,000,000 tons of merchantmen delivered by U.S. and British yards last year...
...newly designed, highly efficient destroyer escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...